More PDF Generation Issues

This is going to be a long complicated description, so please bare with me...
I'm using Tech Comm Suite2 on a new Win 7 system. I'm using documents that worked fine with FM 7.2 and Win XP with some minor edits. Like others, on here I've had problems generating a PDF from FM 9. The error occurred when I used "Save as PDF" or "Save as PDF (Send For Review)." It didn't matter whether I was generating it from the book or an individual file (I also tried new documents). I was getting a long, obscure message that I finally figured out but had nothing to do with the problem (if you're interested, I've attached a screen capture of it). Printing to the Adobe PDF printer worked. It turns out that contrary to advice that I noticed elsewhere on this forum, I needed to unselect the "Convert CMYK to RGB" check box. (I just noticed one more thing while verifying my memory to write this up. The error shown in the attached JPG doesn't occur when the default printer is set to Adobe PDF. It only occurs when I have the printer set to my HP LaserJet 4100 PS).
OK, so that problem seems fixed. So here's my new stumper...
When I took a closer look at the generated PDF, I noticed that some of the headers were changed to gibberish, and both those that were and weren't gibberish were changed to italic from regular. For example, "Overview" became "OveriwMaeniv" and "Manual Purpose and Contents" became " AvMAto Mr isloAvwo ivelves" (note: there were some graphic squares that didn't copy and paste into here). Not only that, the FrameMaker file itself had the fonts changed to italic. However, once the fonts were italic, converting the document another time solved the gibberish problem.

In general, if you're doing PDFs, your system should be set up to use the PDF printer as the default. Period. You can do it at the system level or with a SetPrint script from http://www.sundorne.com/FrameMaker/Freeware/setPrint.htm
I suspect that when you use the HP, you're either in HP mode (not PostScript) or you use some fonts that are resident only on the printer itself, and aren't installed on your system. Which means that you may be using two different versions of the same font -- one from your /Fonts folder and one on the printer.
May not make a difference, but I've gotten into the habit of saving files that I've rolled forward from 7.2 to 9 as MIF to clean things up, then saving the MIFs as FM. Also, there seem to have been some problems that resulted from 7.2 books being converte to 9. I don't think your font issue is related, but if a book starts acting wonky, you may want to recreate the book file in 9...
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