IPad export to PDF font problems

Hi guys, would really appreciate any help you can provide on the following:
So I can happily create wonderful documents on pages or keynote. The issue is when I export then to PDF which is by far, what I think is the best option as it seems to retain the layout and picture options etc, it. Seems that when I email this to people who don't have mac's the fonts on the PDF cannot be viewed.
It seems that basic fonts are ok like arial, but anything that is somewhat interesting like apple gothic or even helvetica cannot be displayed.
Does anyone have a solution to this, ie. Is there somewhere I could direct people to go to download apple fonts, or worse case is there anyway I can print from my pc, retaining the font.
Many thanks for any replies....

Unfortunately, the feedback link is next-of-kin to useless. Getting no response from them, and not knowing how many others have similar complaints is just pi**ing in the wind. If I am going to go to all the trouble to analyze a problem in detail and document the parameters, I am not going to just "throw it over the fence" and hope for the best.
To that end, I just got off the phone with Apple Support. They are aware of the problem and have a team working on it.
After discussing the issue at length, it seems that the best work-around is to use the iwork.com sharing gimmick. View the files from a browser and print (if needed) from the browser.
You cannot use the "download as PDF" from iwork.com, because it generates corrupted PDFs, just like iPad does.
It is also possible to be VERY selective about the fonts that are used when creating a document from scratch, but there is no easy way to know which fonts will work and which ones generate embedding errors.
In my experience, most of the new document templates will NOT work.
Anyway, the upshot is that there will be an update to the iPad Apps that will fix the problem. They do not know when that will be.
It is suggested that the more complaints that they get about the issue, the faster it will be fixed. It is POSSIBLE that the feedback link may do something in this regard.
If this issue is important to you, I would suggest taking the time to visit
http://www.apple.com/support/expert/
and talk to a real, live, human being about the problem.

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