Printing quality with Remote desktop technologies

Hello,
I manage several servers using Remote Desktop Technologies : 2003 R2 Terminal services, 2008 R2 RDS, 32/64 bits...
I upgraded recently to Adobe Reader X and I observe a strange behaviour : when I connect to theses servers with my RDP client, fonts are not the same as displayed, letters are glued without any spaces between them BUT if I connect to the console (HP ILO or vmware console), print quality is fine !!!!
I'm still making comparative tests but I'm stuck.
Any ideas ? I didn't find any thread related to this problem in the forums.
Kind regards,
Sebastien

Hi!
I have the same problem as you!
Other applications works fine with printredirects, but not Adobe Reader X. I have tried to modify the GPO to disable Remote Desktop Easy Print as i seen on Microsoft forums to try on printing errors, but no luck.
I have checked that the printerdriver seems to be the correct one for the local printer, but it does not matter.
Have you found out anything please let me know.
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