PDFs have strange, blurry streaks

When I try to save a pages document as a pdf (from the print menu--> save as pdf) they end up looking really, really strange. On my computer, everthing looks fine, but when I send them to a friend or open them on a pc to print, the text is warped and too blurry to read and there are big black streaks running across the page. I have never seen anything like it. I've been looking around but haven't been able to find any place this has been asked.
Any help would be much appreciated.
thanks,
charles

> Question asked and answered many times. look at :
> http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23140
The answer does not give actionable information for the person who is asking.
Here is the answer: PostScript and Encapsulated PostScript do not support device-independent programmed transparency operators - at all.
PDF lower than version 1.4 (Acrobat 5) does not support device-independent programmed transparency operators - at all.
If you as author, or if your audience, see artifacts then your first step is to determine which version of PDF was used by the PDF creator and which version of PDF is supported by the PDF consumer (reader).
If the PDF creator wrote version 1.4 or higher and the PDF consumer only reads PDF 1.3 and lower, then your first step is to open the same PDF 1.4 in a PDF consumer that supports PDF 1.4 or higher.
This is not to say that there are no problems with device-independent transparency operators in software that writes PDF, but the first place to look for an answer to the problem of artifacts is in the PDF version supported by the PDF consumer.
/hh

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