OTF to PDF missing special characters

Hello!
I am trying to convert OTF output (SmartForm, spool) to PDF and it works fine, except that special characters (in this case, Croatian) are not printed well. In original document (SmartForm print preview and output) everything looks fine.
I checked OSS and found some notes like
141343 PDF Conversion: Latin-2
588724 PDF conversion: incorrect special characters with Latin-2
but suggested solutions didn't help.
Is there something else that can cause this problem? Are there any ideas?
Thanks!
Regards,
Igor

Just trying to troubleshoot here, have you tried different printer types? Same result?
I guess you have followed the SAP notes correctly right?
If you still have the problem and you are sure you've implemented/followed the notes correctly, you better open a OSS message for it. It may be a particular problem with your Unicode environment... strange...
Sorry cannot really help much.
Leonardo De Araujo

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