Problems Exporting WingDing Symbols to PDF Files

Okay, I have a new one for you. It's related to this thread: Crystal Reports 8.5 Multi-Selection Formulas
I have a report using 8.5 which contains formulas to display checkboxes. The checkboxes work correctly (thank you so much Garrett!). However, when I export the report as a pdf file, the unchecked boxes appear as starts and the X'ed boxes appear as rectangles (unrecognized font). The formula fields are in WingDing font; the characters are 168 and 253.
I changed the character numbers to 169 and 174, and I changed to font to Times New Roman, just to see if it would convert correctly. It did, but now the issue is that no other fonts have both the checked or X'ed box as well as an empty check box.
Has anyone experienced this issue before? How did you resolve it?
Thank you in advance.

Hi,
Even I have this issue. But I found out that there is bug and its already filed with MS. Please see the url below,
[http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=431057]
Regards,
Praveen

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