PDF and Word export useless!

I made a club newlsetter which looks great on my Mac, but it has to be printed by someone in the Windows world. I used Acrobat Reader to preview the PDF file, but some fonts are not rendered correctly (minor problem) and whole text boxes with advertisements are missing (serious!). Is there a workaround for this problem?
I tried exporting the document in Word format, but there is hardly any resemblance between my doc and the Word version! This export feature is not ready for prime time.

I think you haven't undertood the problem with the PDF export: the PDFs produced in Pages are beauiful when viewed in Preview. But in Acrobat Reader they are garbled badly. Since Preview is not available on Windows machines that means only I and my Apple colleagues can appreciate (or print) the creations I have made in Pages.
I thought PDF was a platform-independent page description language. So why are the presentaions in Acrobat and Preview so different? Is Apple using non-standard PDF features?

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6 /
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Post Author: vcharles
CA Forum: Crystal Reports
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