Export Adobe PDF (print ) BasicTextAdornment

Hello,
We have a plugin that uses Text Adornments very much like the BasicTextAdornment sample plugin. When we choose to export to PDF our adornments are not being printed, the sample plugin BasicTextAdornment does not print either.
Does any one know how we can fix this.
Many Thanks.
P.

Thanks for taking the time to think about this Cropas.
I put some debugs in the draw routine on the sample TextAdornment plugin and it is not being called on export, printing to postscript is fine.
P.

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