Scrambled fonts

Hi guys,
I believe I had this problem before but  don't remember how I got it solved. Whenever I print a document from  Adobe Reader X it scrambles my text. All the letters get mixed-up or  substituted. I looked through the options but nothing jumped out.
Although, if I use Adobe Acrobat 9 all prints ok.

That's probably because the fonts aren't properly embedded in the document. Version 9 wasn't as picky about that.
You can look around the print menu for "print to image" and see if that helps.

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