Why do fonts appear distorted when...

...there's more than a single instance of Acrobat open at a time?
The text was rendered to shape in Photoshop before being saved as a PDF, so the vector data would be retained despite losing editing capabilities.
When I open the resulting PDF in acrobat, everything looks fine. The fonts are perfect, and I can zoom in to near-atom levels and everything is smooth and perfect.
However, if I try opening it when there's already an instance of acrobat open, the fonts are distorted... jagged... almost unreadable (almost).
Why?

Gary Looft wrote:
They show up as Unix executable files
Kurt is very likely right, but we need more info to try to fix it.
Server details?
What version of Mac OS X can view the fonts?
What protocol do they use?
What protocol do you use?
If they connect to the server with a different protocol from you (eg, AFP vs SMB), try switching to the same protocol. That may very well not solve the problem, but it's the first step.

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