Letters change when creating PDF

I am using Acrobat Professional 6 and creating PDFs with the "Adobe PDF" icon it created when installed.
Some documents from the Bloomberg system are converted by a sort of substitution cypher to gibberish. Capital letters are affected, but not lowercase. Capital letters are changed to the next letter in the alphabet. Also, numerals are increased by one. Exclamation points replace spaces, forward slashes replace periods, etc.
For example, the original said this:
Crandon Capital Partners v. Shelk, 202 Ore. 537
The PDF says this:
Drandon!Dapital!Qartners!v/!Shelk/!313!Pre/!648
This is repeatable on different days and with different files.
This does not happen with files from other sources, but the Bloomberg tech people insist it doesn't happen for them. I learned they are using Acrobat 8; could that be the difference?
In any case, how do I fix it?
Peter W. Schroth

Look at the document properties (ctrl-D) under the font tab. You probably did not embed the fonts. I suspect you are using the Standard Settings which does not embed all fonts. Try changing the settings file to Press or Paper (I don't remember which ones are listed for AA8). You can also check the settings to be sure that the fonts are embedded (all of them) and probably subset.

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