Problems printing PDF from Reports

Hi,
I'm having a problem with the Report's way of generating pdf-documents.
The report that Reports was supposed to create have some bullets where but when Reports converts the document to pdf it sometimes insert asterisks instead of bullets...but only sometimes. At other times the bullets are substituted with | signs ???
When I open the file with Acrobat reader, you can see the asterisks (sometimes) and (sometimes) the bullets, so I don't think that it is Acrobat.
How do I get it to print bullets every time?
Can it be something with fonts ?
All help is appriaciated very much as I'm going crazy soon :P
mvh Christian

Hi Christian,
I have a similar problem with Report 10g R1. We have a Report which contains a lot of informations, so all field have the little size they can (on report builder). Some times, the report is ok, but some times, informations are replaced by '*'. Report replace characters by '*' when there is not enough place !!!
If I compare a good and a bad report, I can see that the text has not exactly the same size !!! And I can see in the PDF (open with text editor) that there are some differences...
I have an open tar on metalink, but no solution for the moment...
Another thing, this occurs on our 3 production servers but not on our development server...

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