PPT slides pdf created on Mac messed up when opened on PC

Hello folks! I have been saving my PPT handouts as PDFs (using Print->PDF->Save as PDF) and e-mailing to our secretary for printing. However, when she opens them on her PC, the color schemes of the slides and formatting of some background shapes (e.g., boxes) is messed up. For instance, a blue background appears as white and a gray rectangle I have as background for the shape appears smaller than it should be. When she opens pdfs created by other Windows users, there are no such problems. Just mine and another colleague's, both being Mac users. Btw, our slides appear fine on some other PCs.
I thought pdf files were platform-independent. Doesn't seem to be the case here. I have been creating the slides using Office of Mac 2011 and my OS is 10.6.8. Not sure which version of Adobe Reader our secretary has, but she tells me it's the latest version. Is her computer missing something that hampers the display of the slides? Any ideas on what may be going on?
Thanks in advance.
Subbu

This is not a mac/pc issue. It's a page code issue combined
with browser
rendering. And as long as you build your pages without a
valid and complete
doctype on them, you will continue to have these problems.
> I'm not good with code
DW will be a frustrating experience for you in this state.
The real culprit here is revealed in this line of code -
<!-- ImageReady Slices (sep_services.psd
Layout problems with pages built using graphics applications
to write your
HTML probably account for 50% of the posts to this forum,
unfortunately.
All of these issues are caused by the fact that the graphics
apps write the
HTML to EXACTLY match the image, but in doing so, that HTML
will break when
you replace the image with real-world content that has a
slightly (even VERY
slightly) different shape.
But try this - in code view, find and replace all instances
of this -
border="0"></a> </td>
with this -
border="0"></a></td>
(note that all I did there was to remove a trailing space
from the </a> tag)
does that help?
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Adobe Community Expert
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
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"Erin Engelmann" <[email protected]> wrote
in message
news:fvncqk$qho$[email protected]..
>
Hi I am working on a mac in DW 8 and after finishing
a site I am
> finding that the table is breaking apart in Internet
Explorer when viewed
> on a
> pc. Looks good on my mac and a couple browsers on pc but
having the most
> trouble with IE. A few pages are okay, but not the ones
I extended to be
> longer. I'm not good with code, so any ideas where can I
get help
> troubleshooting this?
> Examples: Correct page =
http://www.kevilcs.com/
Incorrect page =
>
http://www.kevilcs.com/costseg.html
>
>

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