When I save a pages document as a word document it changes!

I have created a document in pages. When I save as word document, it gets funky! Things shift all over.
Also, when I save as a pdf, many people complain they cannot open it, and if they can, it is illegible.
How do I fix both of these?

dwb wrote:
but it was a problem I experienced repeatedly last year despite the fact that fonts are supposed to be embedded.
The fonts aren't supposed to be embedded. They are embedded.
After that, you may have applications proving that they are unable to display chars with the embedded datas but this is an other problem.
The Apple tool creating PDF embed fonts ( in fact a subset restricted to the really used characters ) since it's first delivery.
I bought the Countdown font more than ten years ago, so it may be described as an old one. It's made of two files : a bitmap one and a postscript one. Which is the worst structure given the late versions of the Apple tool.
My guess is that your problems where linked to the fact that Apple continue to create PDFs according to the version 1.3 when many appli are now assuming version 1.6 or higher.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 7 mai 2010 17:09:54

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