Printing to PDF printer problem

Since April I have been having a problem printing internet documents to a pdf file. When I print bank transaction documents to a PDF printer the form structure prints correctly but the data that goes in the form is all jumbled up in unreadable characters. I just tried to print a Govenment census confirmation to a PDF file using the PDF Printer in Acrobat 9 and it acted like the Bank printing problem. All other printing of PDF documents works fine. I have the latest updates all installed and the problem still is there. This problem did not exist in the first half of March. Any suggestions?

Hi, I am having the same problem on multiple computers starting this spring as you reported. I just bought a new win 7 64-bit (happens on 32 bit too) and installed Adobe 9 Pro. First time I used it to print from the web on IE 9 the garbage printing happened. I've started to use other methods of creating PDFs because the Adope PDF printer is too unreliable, sometimes it works, more often it does not. The problem also occurs when printing a PDF of a word document. Fortunately, I can use Word to save in PDF format which does work.
Very Very Aggravating !!

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