I cannot open a pdf, maybe because it was created on a Mac

I received a pdf file which is supposed to contain a photo. However when I try to open it on my windows computer wth Adobe I see only 33 pages of numbers and letters. Meanwhile I played a bit with it and found this: <pdf:Producer>Mac OS X 10.9.3 Quartz PDFContext<
Anyone an idea what it means and how to open the file on windows?

Acrobat should of course also be able to open the PDF, unless it's malformed or corrupted.
How did you receive that PDF - via email? Email can corrupt any attachments.
A safer way to transfer e-documents is to use a file sharing service such as Files at Acrobat.com, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, ..., then share the uploaded file with the recipient.

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