PowerPoint to PDF creates "blank" pages

I just downloaded Acrobat 9 this afternoon and have tried several times to convert a very large PowerPoint presentation to a PDF file. One time is said "unexpected error" mesaage, so I shut down and restarted. The second time, it made the PDF file, but there were a lot of blank pages throughout the PDF document. Does anyone have any thoughts on fixing this??

Here was my dilemma. I was printing multiple files as Notes Pages to PDF. I had files created in Powerpoint 2010, natively and by me; files created in 2010 by someone else; files created in 2003 by me; and files created in 2003 by someone else. The files created by someone else didn't work. The ones created on this machine did. I tried countless printing options, restarted the print spooler, nothing helped. Then I embedded the true type fonts (all characters), saved the file to disk, closed it and re-opened it and POOF it worked.
My problem was only on Notes Pages printing or saving to PDF, and only with presentations not created on this machine regardless of version.
Hope this helps.
Karen

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