Viewing PDF in OSX vs Windows

Hey...
I've looked through the discussions, I've searched Google and Adobe...but am finding no answers.
I create newsletters in Pages...I export as PDF. It looks great and all formatting consistent when I open via Preview.
But when I use Adobe Reader to view it (in OSX or Windows)...it loses some formatting. ie..text turns white, arrows are white (when should be black).
I've tried not to overlap anything...text boxes with arrows or pics with other things...(as much as I hate everything floating alone).
Any thoughts would be great!
Thanks,

Are you using attributes like shadows ?
We explained here many times that Pages uses several system's features to display several things.
The result is that these things aren't passed to the other world.
It's explained by Apple in:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA23140?viewlocale=en_US
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 26 mars 2010 21:09:53

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