Garbled Characters in Print as .pdf

I am using Acrobat Pro, version 9.4.4 Windows 7, 64 bit
This issue has recently happened, before this everything was working perfectly...
When I go to print something, (say a web email) using the .pdf printer so I can save a copy to my desktop, the document is saved with much of the text garbled making the document unusable. Is there a way to fix this?
I apologize in advance if this has been answered... I did a forum search and nothing turned up.
Thanks for your help...

I followed some other instructions I found to set Adobe PDF preferencesI looked under start / settings / printers but cannot see Adobe PDF there. I'm not using my own PC so I can't load anything on it. Alternatively Is this something that can be done each time a PDF file needs to be printed?

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