Printer Adobe PDF 'printing' corrupted characters

Acrobat Professional v9.5.0 (Acrobat reports there is no update available)

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

I print various applications and web pages on my 'Adobe PDF' printer to save things in the form of PDF files.

In the last months, I started having problems with my Adobe PDF printer. This problem has happened twice just yesterday, in fact.

I will be looking at a web page and choose to print it as a PDF (for example, an invoice). I provides the name of the file and choose to print and Acrobat to display the newly created PDF file, and there characters corrupted in various places.

If I try to print in PDF format again, I get the same results.

However, if I print the article in the Microsoft XPS format, it works very well and all the characters are readable.

I don't know what to do. I saw an article on embedding the fonts, but it seems that all the standard "web safe fonts" are already set to be incorporated into the PDF file through Distiller (if that is what is doing printing to create the PDF file). If I have to choose fonts to embed in the PDF, it seems extremely difficult to determine which fonts are used by each site or application by selecting all the manually to be incorporated into the files.

Surely, there must be a simpler solution to this question.

I too had this annoying problem, usually printing of https sites, although the address of the site could be a coincidence.

What worked for me was:

  1. Select Print
  2. In the print dialog box, select Adobe PDF , and then Preferences.
  3. In the Print Options dialog box, the tab should be Adobe PDF settings
  4. Clear the rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts
  5. Select OK

If the box is already disabled, it can be caused by something similar. It worked so I went no further. I have not yet checked to see if this must be done each time or how to do it by default.

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