CFPDFForm populate existing PDF Chinese font

I am using livecycle pdf template to populate the section dynamically using XML data file. I am using CFPDF (#ColdFusion) tag with populate action, when CF generates the PDF I can see the static data in Chinese but dynamic data is not visible, I am using Microsoft Yahei font which is embedded in PDF template. If I use Arial font for dynamic data, it shows the characters as ??? which shows data is coming. The XML I am passing is of UTF-8 encoding.
If you need more info or want to know what's in XML, I can post that as well.
Please help
Philip
here is how I am using the tag:
<cfpdfform action="populate"
            source="#template#"
            destination="#expandPath(variables.printDestinationPath)##arguments.filename#"
            overwrite="true"
            overwriteData="true"
            XMLdata="#arguments.printData#"
        />

This may seem totally obvious, but have you made sure that the user account that coldfusion is running on has privledges on the server to actually access that resource? [Edit: by totally obvious I meant that you most likely already tried this and this question is probably moot]
The "java.io.FilePermission" error message seems to indicate that there is either a problem with user account permissions on your server.
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