Controlling the encoding of a PDF printed with a virtual printer?

Hi all.
In another thread,  I was told that I cannot change the encoding of fonts with Adobe Reader. How about with Acrobat? 
In an existing business process, users print PDFs to a virtual printer from Acrobat Reader. The resulting PDF somtimes contain CID fonts with encoding Identity-H.
Not all PDF viewers do this, some keep the encoding of the original pdf (same virtual printer used).
Can I control the encoding of the resulting PDF by printing from Acrobat (or any other Adobe product)?
All comments appreciated,
/Martin

Thanks for answering!
1) I realize it seems strange, but the virtual printer is embedded in one of our products. The product uses Windows printing as a point of integration in order to enable almost any windows program (including PDF readers) to send data to our server. In effect, we use pdf as our data protocol over the wire. It's a long story...
2) The virtual printer embedded in our product is NovaPDF.
3) I wish it wasn't an issue, but the library we use to extract text (PDFNet) does not seem to handle it very well. However, I am simultaneously looking for a solution in that end too.
The problem only occurs very rarely, for specific PDFs only. PDFs created by the library iText seem to be particularly problematic.

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