Server side document creation and printing

I have a Java application server that resides on an AIX server. I have a need to create some documents on the server, and print them to one of the AIX print queues. In the past, I have done this by creating PDF documents using iText and then using an operating system call to the acrobat reader process which converts the PDF to a PostScript file and then redirects that to one of the AIX print queues.
This was working fine and dandy until I changed my process to do something a bit different in my PDF files, and it appears that my Acrobat process on the AIX box no longer likes my PDF documents and isn't printing them correctly. But on my Windows machine, the PDFs are viewer just fine, and printed.
So something fishy is going on with the Acrobat process on the AIX box.
So here is what I've tried:
1) Upgrading the Acrobat process from 5.0 to 7.0 - Result: could not get the new version working, it has all kinds of missing dependencies etc etc.
2) Tried to use GhostScript to print the documents - Result: it also didn't seem to print the documents properly.
My question isn't really to ask how to solve this, but to ask if anyone else has ever developed a system that creates some sort of documents with dynamic content on a server and spools them to a print queue on that server?
I am second guessing myself about using PDFs now, but I don't know what my other options would be.
So to sum up, the system is a gui-less character based server running a Java app server and I want to be able to create some sort of document that could contain text, images etc, and spool it to a Unix print queue.
Any suggestions from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

That is a possibility, but these documents can be viewed through our ERP application as PDFs in Adobe, and through a web application as well. So essentially we want them to be PDF documents except when they are to be printed through the application server.
I suppose I should continue down the path of finding a more robust PDF -> PostScript converter that will run on our Unix system.
I was hoping to get feedback from users on what they've used to create documents that seems to work best in a PDF format, and if they've ever had to print them from a Unix queue etc.
Thanks.

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That is a possibility, but these documents can be viewed through our ERP application as PDFs in Adobe, and through a web application as well. So essentially we want them to be PDF documents except when they are to be printed through the application server.
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