PDF version not clear on certain pages

When I make a PDF version of my Pages document, any page that contains a shape has degraded quality font. The only two fonts I'm using are Verdana and Times New Roman.
Any suggestions?

Peter,
What you are saying makes perfect sense. I know transparencies and other effects can cause problems - for example in iweb, adding effects to HTML text turns the whole text box into a graphic. However, this doesn't seem to be the issue here.
In my doc, I have no graphics overlapping text boxes. The graphic is well apart from the text box. It's as if adding graphics anywhere on a page causes the whole page to be rendered as a graphic - perhaps then being rendered, as you suggest, as a bitmap.
To add to the confusion, I thought I had this figured out. I had been using TIFF files and tried JPG instead. It seemed to make a difference. However, continued testing showed that was NOT what was making the difference . . .
Now I'm finding that the PDF is rendering differently depending on which screen I'm viewing it on, what magnification I'm using and what program I'm using to view it!
I'm running a macbook w. Intel core 2 duo, Snow Leopard. I also have a 22" Samsung monitor attached for a dual monitor setup. When I open the PDF on the macbook screen (using Adobe Reader) at 122%, the text page with graphics looks OK (not great, but OK) when I drag it over to the bigger monitor, it initially looks the same. However, if I re-size it on the bigger monitor, say go from 122% to 125%, I get the jagged edges text look again!
OK, next step: Go to a different macbook, boot up in bootcamp & Windows. Same PDF with graphics looks fine in Adobe Reader in any magnification.
Another option: Try on old mac G5 power PC (running Leopard) Same PDF looks fine in Preview. However, download latest version of Adobe Reader and we're back to the Jagged text look.
Go back to original, dual-monitor macbook and try same PDF in Preview. Looks fine.
So, the issue appears to be specifically how Adobe Reader is rendering the PDF??
Using Adobe Reader 8.1.6 on main macbook, 7.0 on Windows and the latest 9 something, on G5
At this point, I am using Verdana font, 13 pt., dark gray on a white background in my doc. It appears I can export from Pages with graphics to PDF and get a PDF that renders on-screen in MOST cases in acceptable form. However, I wish I felt better that ALL by clients were seeing the same thing (Isn't that the whole idea behind PDFs?) rather than have to worry that some may see poorly rendered text.
I very well may still be missing something here, so if anyone has any other ideas, please let me know!
And, thanks Peter for the suggestion!

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