martinibuster - 8:12 pm on Apr 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

My understanding is that you can "embed" fonts in Acrobat regardless of platform. Although Illustrator files are the same as pdf (different extensions, same technology), the deigner may get better results by turning the fonts into paths, or else opening the document in Acrobat and converting and embedding the document from there.

Ok, I looked it up:

From Adobe [adobe.com]:

PDF is a universal file format that preserves the fonts, images, graphics, and layout of any source document, regardless of the application and platform used to create it.

Sounds like your designer screwed up somewhere.