Google Chrome PDF viewer displays different fonts

When I design a document in either Indesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop I use many custom fonts. I export my PDF's as optimized as possible for web viewing from the layout program itself.
I don't stop there. I open my exported PDF in Acrobat and optimize the file further using the Optimize PDF tool. I flatten everything out, but I keep my fonts embedded. When I drag and drop the file in Google Chrome or Firefox the fonts change. I get some cheap looking serif font instead of my slab serif. I've tried unembedding the font as well and I get the same result.
What gives?
I just want to make sure this isn't something I'm doing wrong. What's weird is it happens in Firefox/Chrome, but it doesn't happen in Safari.
Firefox/Chrome PDF viewer:
Safari PDF viewer:

Interesting.
However, as what each of these browsers does to render a PDF is dictated by the respective coding discussions of that would have to take place each browsers "developer space".
Nothing there is controlled by Adobe eh.
Be well...

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When I design a document in either Indesign, Illustrator, or Photoshop I use many custom fonts. I export my PDF's as optimized as possible for web viewing from the layout program itself.
I don't stop there. I open my exported PDF in Acrobat and optimize the file further using the Optimize PDF tool. I flatten everything out, but I keep my fonts embedded. When I drag and drop the file in Google Chrome or Firefox the fonts change. I get some cheap looking serif font instead of my slab serif. I've tried unembedding the font as well and I get the same result.
What gives?
I just want to make sure this isn't something I'm doing wrong. What's weird is it happens in Firefox/Chrome, but it doesn't happen in Safari.
Firefox/Chrome PDF viewer:
Safari PDF viewer:

Interesting.
However, as what each of these browsers does to render a PDF is dictated by the respective coding discussions of that would have to take place each browsers "developer space".
Nothing there is controlled by Adobe eh.
Be well...

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I've inherited a file at work that displays different numbers of text blocks, depending on the version of Acrobat Pro used to view the file. Here's the specific issue:
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Is the actual problem in trying to edit the text or something else?
If you post a file, and indicate what text we should look at, we can confirm what is actually going on in your file.
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I would appreciate that Report developer with no Apps experience also read this problem.
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One production, up and running at the customer.
One development , up and running at our site, develop department.
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[email protected]

I would appreciate that Report developer with no Apps experience also read this problem.
We have 2 running APPS11i environments.
One production, up and running at the customer.
One development , up and running at our site, develop department.
We developed some reports (rdf's) in Reports 6i Builder.
These reports are known in Oracle Applications by placing the reports in the <OUR_TOP>\11.5.0\reports\US directory
and of course as concurrent programs in Apps11i.
The Requests are submitted by using FND_REQUEST package in our custom application, this works ok.
On BOTH environments the reports are printed with expected font (=Arial) and layout.The concurrent programs have output information set: format (postscript), style and printer.
Secondly we defined another set of concurrent programs, almost the same as the above con.programs mentioned.
Except with this difference that the output information set is format (PDF) and printer is empty (print flag is off).
ONLY on our development site adobe acrobat reader is launched with the expected fonts (arial). SO DEVELOPMENT IS OKAY for us.
On our production site acrobat reader is launched, but the used font is not Arial, instead a font Devicefont10cpi is used.
But these Arial fonts are in the fonts direcory (by looking in control panel | fonts).
When we run the reports stand-alone (reports builder or rwrun60.exe in a DOS box) on the production environment the pdf outputs are created okay with the correct font.
What could we have been forgotten when deploying the reports on production?
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Thanks in advance auke quist
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