Fonts missing when opening a PDF

When I open PDF's in Illustrator CS3 and I don't have some of the fonts used in the document it replace them. But what if I just want to get text as a vector curve and not editable for writing something else?

Marc,
Ask the provider to outline fonts before saving as PDF. Otherwise, the fonts are embedded as type.

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