Error: PDF Embbed and PDF Subset

Hi,
i'm trying to print a PDF report in my web browser using the new PDF Subset feature of Reports Server 9i to subset a barcode font but i'm having the following problem:
When the PDF is being generated, Adobe Acrobat 5 is showing the error (110) - Problem reading the document.
My O.S is Red Hat Linux 7.3 and the Oracle 9ias R2 is installed with the patches p2703110 (9.0.2.2 Core Patchset) and p2842923.
I'm tryng to view the report in a Windows 2000 machine and on the same Linux machine.
Note that PDF Embbed works just fine, but ONLY on the first try. When I try to refresh the report on the browser, Reports Server shows the PDF Font Embbed Error.
Does Anybody knows what is happening??
Is this some kind of bug??
Marcus Santos.
([email protected])

Here is an earlier thread discussing this problem:
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