Preview-generated PDF comes up blank pages in Acrobat

Okay, this is a weird one. I scanned some documents on a high-volume (ImageTrac) scanner into color JPG files. These, I imported into Preview and saved them as a PDF file.
This PDF file is - of course - viewable without issues in Preview. I then sent this file to a colleague with Windows. He called me, that the file came up all empty pages. I then opened the file on my iMac with Acrobat - and lo and behold, it came up empty pages as well!
I ended up re-creating the PDFs from the JPGs by importing them into Acrobat.
How can this happen? I thought any PDF Preview produced would be absolutely standard?

Well, it sure is weird. It should be standard across different PDF viewers, but apparently it isn't. I ran into this problem myself but I have yet to find the reason why this happens. If you happen to know why, I would be quite interested to know.
A quick solution I found was saving the PDF from Preview (in Mac OS X 10.5.8). This made it so that Acrobat could read it again. The PDF was created using Mac OS X 10.6.2, using Quartz PDF Context.

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