Preview (app) and PDFs generated by Photoshop CS3

(Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this question; I didn't see another more appropriate category to post this)
Anybody else here had problems with PDFs created with PS CS3 when trying to view with Preview? Any type that was not rasterized in PS disappears! PDFs show correctly when opened in Acrobat or Reader though so I know the type is there and it's readable/recognizable. Seems like a glitch in the Preview application.
Maybe this will be corrected with Leopard??

I made a small PS CS3 file using a couple of fonts which were Apple Casual and Stencil, used the pdf option in the print dialog box. The text was there in the doc opened in Preview and Acrobat Reader (8.1). Both of these are TT fonts. So I included one PS type Belo, and it was there also.
What font type are you using?
Yes, I know that to modify text in PS it has to be rasterized.
Could be a PS doc setup problem.
Make a new file and try putting the text in question alone on it and see if it shows up on Preview.

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