Font conversion_PC-PDF opened in Mac Illustrator

Working on a project that I've done before created on a PC based Pull-down menu driven system and saved in a PDF format. I download those PDFs for editing in Illustrator. This time the programmer used PC Adobe Folio 11 fonts and now when I open the PDF in Illustrator, though the names match exactly, the type is one big garbled mess on my screen?? Any help, whether in Acrobat or Illustrator??
Edit here: After reading some forums I had better qualify this and say the main face is AGaramond Pro.

Another suggestion would be to reload the font in your font folder on your computer drive.
My computer>C drive>windows>font
Copy the whole font with its italiacs, bold, etc. Copy it to your desktop, delete all the associated font files and drop them back in the font folder. I would third the clearing your font cache too. It may be that your Illustrator has a corrupt font file.
When you open the pdf does it report missing fonts? I attached a screenshot of what it would look like but I don't think this in the case for you.

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