Characters missing when printing a PDF

Hi all,
When printing a PDF file (word document converted and digitally signed with Adobe Pro XI) some characters are not printed, they are as blank spaces. The workaround is to print the file as image, with a significant decrease of printing quality. Is there any setting or option to change to avoid this?

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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:20:28 -0700
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To: [email protected]
Subject: Text getting cut off when printing to PDF from Excel
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