PDF file displays boxes instead of Japanese characters

Hi,
I am creating PDF files with a custom third-party set of sortware tools (Infragistics NetAdvantage).
This particular PDF document contains Japanese text using the Meiryo font and this font is embedded into the PDF file. It works fine in Windows (using the Adobe Acrobat Reader application), even on a machine where Meiryo is not installed.
But when viewed on the iPad, the text is displayed as a bunch of empty boxes.
Also, I'm not sure if it's related, but when viewing the same document on Window XP using FoxIt (instead of the Adobe Acrobat Reader), the text is not shown at all - there's just an empty space and not even boxes.
I would love to attach a sample PDF file here, but I don't see any way to do that... is there a way to attach files to these questions?

So the empty boxes are indeed shown by built-in preview, and Adobe Reader is also not able to render the content and it appears as blank.
After investigation , it turns out that system fonts on ipad does not have the required glyphs ( ~ symbol ) to render these characters. This is Apple’s bug and you may have to report this issue , indicating that it is not rendered in Preview / i-books on the ipad.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Thanks,
-vaibhav

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