Printing to PDF-text is changed because of font

I've been trying to print files to PDF, but everytime I do so using the Segoe UI font, the text is distorted into a jumble of letters in a different font. Is there anyway to prevent/fix this? Included is an image of a test PDF I created for this post. The top line was written in Segoe UI.
System Info:
Windows 8.1 OS
Office 2003
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional, included with Adobe CS3

If you use ctrl-D you can check the embedding of the fonts. I suspect the font is not embedded and is not being displayed correctly as a result. You might try using the Press or Print job settings that try to embed all fonts and see if that resolves the problem.
I suspect the problem is related to running AA8 on WIn8.1. However check for the embedding of the fonts. Also check to see if you are set to use local fonts or not (you may have to go to the manual under help for AA8 to find out how to select "local fonts." I am not near my AA8 machine right now. I tried everything I could with AA9 and Win7 to create the problem. I made a WORD file that looked like your's and printed to the Adobe PDF printer. I could not get the problem to come up. I do have the Segoe UI on my system. The result I got is shown below:
I even did this with the Smallest file size and with/without local fonts selected. The only font embedded was the Courier.
As I said, I suspect the Win8.1 installation. Have you updated Acrobat to the latest version to try to maintain the best compatibility possible with Win8.1?

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> using, but i hope that someone more experienced than me
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