$POSITION field prints a character on PDF output

I have a $POSITION field on JFMain page. A subform on Page2 is laid down at the $POSITION field on JFMain. Target output is PDF only. $POSITION field is formatted for No Print, positioned at X=0. When generating preview a $ appears on the left at the margin on the output PDF. This also happens on one other template only a capital M prints instead of a $. The same type subform is on many other templates and it does not occur on those templates. Any ideas on how to correct this are greatly appreciated.

hi Joshua, i would tend to agree with the person on your team that feels it's a font issue. if you're scheduling an export on the server to pdf then that server has to have any fonts used on the reports. there are lots of articles on this process like this one here.
if you export to ms word format in a schedule or publication from the same server you should see the same issue.
-jamie

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