Character spacing messes printing and PDF exporting

I'm having problems printing and exporting to PDF from Pages.
The problem is that when I'm using Character spacing (ie. -7%) they display different on screen, on paper and in PDF. They display right on the screen. But PDF and printing get messed up, the spacing is not right and it adds more space to the fonts.
I'm using:
Mac OS X 10.5.1
Pages 3.0.1
Thanks,
Fannar

I was having the very same problem. I was trying to make a business card with my name centered and character spacing at 40%. The character spacing seemed to only work for the first character. When it came to print or export, the text had shifted left as if it were centered with the spacing applied.
Fear not! I found a solution. Instead of directly printing or exporting as a pdf, I chose to save as a PostScript file in the print dialog. I could then open this file in Preview and save as a pdf or print with the designed character spacing.
File>Print>PDF>Save as PostScript..
This work flow also fixed some nasty degradation of smaller fonts.
Pages Developers take note!

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