Photoshop doesn't render a pdf file correctly.

When i opened a pdf file made in Illustrator (Mac version) it showed a preview like this:
But when it was opened, the file looked like this:
As you can see, the text "RADIO TV" is missing, though it must be there.
That happens only when I open it in it's native CMYK mode, otherwise (RGB, LAB or GRAY) it renders ok.
When I open the file in Acrobat, it shows the text normally, (as on the first picture).
So I looked at the file closely in Illustrator, and found that all the layers are mostly with the same features, but why Photoshop treats them differently???
It's a vital question for me, as I work in a printing company, and we've lost money and can lose clients because of the error.

Have you asked in the Illustrator forum?
If you export a layered file to PDF from Photoshop using a Hight Quality print preset, it keeps text and shapes vectored. You can carry on zooming in on the PDF and still see fully sharp text and objects. But if you bring that same PDF back into Photoshop, it rasterizes the entire document unless you check 'maintain Photoshop layers' (something like that) when exporting to PDF.
So I am wondering what options there are when exporting to PDF from Illustrator, (at which I am still very much still learning). The Illustrator forum guys will be able to answer that in a flash I am sure.

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