Printing cyrillic characters

Hi all,
We have a problem printing cyrillic (bulgarian) characters. An output type is created when we save an invoice and a spool is generated. If we see this spool (print preview) in SAP the characters are displayed properly (maybe you need to flag Activate multibyte characters in SAP options).
However when we print the document the cyrillic characters are transformed to other symbols. Do you know where could be the problem?
Thank you.

Hello
Run SAPLPD -> Options -> Font substitution
SAP fontname = Courier New -> Windows fontname = Courier New Cyr
Arial -> Arial Cyr
Times New Roman -> Times New Roman Cyr
and so on ...
I hope it will help you.

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OSS Note: 776507
Symptom
Documents printed via SAPscript or SmartForms do not print with correct special characters, e.g. ### prints instead of Japanese or Russian characters. What to do?
Other terms
SAPscript, SmartForms, printing, device types, OTF
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DE,EN,FR,ES,NL,SV       COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
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PL, CZ                  COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
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ET, LT, LV              COURIER, HELVE, TIMES
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