Text in PDFs sometimes looks/prints wrong on OS X but is OK in Windows

For a couple years now I've been hit with a problem with PDFs (in both OS X Tiger and Leopard, on PPC Macs and Intel Macs). Simply put, some PDFs simply look and print better on Windows. I hate that because I want to print them on my Mac and have the hardcopy print with all the text looking as it should. I shouldn't have to fire up a Windows machine to accomplish this!
For example, the PDFs generated by TurboTax Online, and the datasheets on Microchip.com exhibit this problem. Please view this PDF in Safari 4 or in OS 10.5's Preview:
http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/AppNotes/00594B.PDF
Now view it in Windows and you will see that the body text on the Mac is outrageously bold in comparison. And yes, it will print BOLD too on the Mac. Of course, if you have Acrobat 9 for OS X, you will find that the body text is normal (not bold). But not all PDFs can be viewed "as expected" simply by using Acrobat 9 instead of Apple's Preview as I shall now explain.
All TurboTax Online generated PDFs and some US government PDFs (such as passport applications) are problematic. With these PDFs (especially TurboTax Online), most lowercase "r's" are horizontally compressed and fonts too bold on the Mac, regardless of whether you view the file in Safari, Preview or Acrobat 9 on OS 10.5. And I tried downloading those PDFs from different browsers too, but that didn't matter. But when I view those same PDFs on Windows, everything looks fine (no excessive bolding of text, and no compressed "r" characters).
I've grown tired of using Windows to get around this problem in OS X. Can someone please help?
Thank you!

In terms of the fonts contained in the PDF itself, yes, I am indeed getting different PDF files depending on whether I download them on a Windows PC or on a Mac running OS X.
Yes, I can copy the PDF to the Mac (running OS X), which was originally downloaded on the PC (and looks fine on the PC). And when I view that PDF (again, the one originally downloaded on the PC) in OS X, it looks fine. And if I take the same PDF which was downloaded originally on OS X and then display it on the PC, I can see the font problems on the PC. So the ticket to success, sadly, is that I have to use a PC to download some PDFs or suffer font problems.
For example, I have two versions of the same PDF saved on my Intel iMac. I downloaded both from TurboTax Online, but one was downloaded on the PC and the other on my Mac. The one that was downloaded on the PC looks great and prints great (and is the one I printed and submitted to the IRS). Opening both in Acrobat 9 (on the Mac), I then go to the File menu and choose "Properties" and then view the "Fonts Used in this Document."
The PDF that was generated on the PC (the one that looks perfect) uses 7 fonts (all marked with a red, lower case "a" graphic to the left of them in Acrobat):
Courier
Helvetica
Helvetica-Bold
Helvetica-BoldOblique
Helvetica-Narrow
Helvetica-Narrow-Bold
Helvetica-Oblique
QuickTypePi (Embedded)
But the other PDF, which I downloaded in OS X (the one that has messed up lowercase r's), uses the following 29 fonts (yes, some do look like duplicates, but this is exactly how they show in Acrobat 9):
(These have a "TT" document icon to the left of them in Acrobat)
Courier (Embedded Subset)
Courier (Embedded Subset)
Helvetica (Embedded Subset)
Helvetica (Embedded Subset)
Helvetica-Bold (Embedded Subset)
Helvetica-Bold (Embedded Subset)
(And these have a red, lower case "a" graphic to the left of them in Acrobat)
Helvetica-BoldOblique
Helvetica-Oblique
HelveticaLTMM10001 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM1000134 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM1000267 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM100068 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM134867 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM1800 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM2011 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM2011000 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM201134 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM201201 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM201267 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM201334 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM201401 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM201534 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM201667 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM201867 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM201933 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM68800 (Embedded Subset)
HelveticaLTMM68867 (Embedded Subset)
QuickTypePi (Embedded Subset)
QuickTypePi (Embedded Subset)
So why then does simply downloading the same PDF on the Mac (running OS X) cause a font mess?
To simply say "the font producer" is at fault does not give a technical explanation on why this is happening. And it is not like TurboTax is a small company other. Also, I get similar problems when downloaded some US government PDFs, so it's hard for me to see how the "producer" is at fault here. Something is screwy in the Mac OS, hence my post here to find out what is at fault, and then get it fixed (if possible).
Thanks,
James

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