Smartform Printing in XDF format

Dear all experts,
I was trying to print out the smart form in XDF format. I accessed to Spool List (SP01) to view the result but the output shown on screen is truncated. After printing it, I went to AL11 to see the output file, however, only single line of truncated string shown on screen. Is there anyway configurations or checking that I should do to solve this problem?
Thanks.

Within SP01, viewing the spool request, I see the following characters:
═䑆ⴱ⸳ഊ◢팍ਲ⁯扪
祰攠⽔祰攱ഊ>
〰‱〰〠㄰〰‵>
‱〰〠〠〠〠>
㈰‷㈰‷㘰‷㘰>
⽁獣敮琠㜲>
ਯ䱡獴䍨慲′>
㔳㠠㔳㠠㠵>    Etc....
EDIT: I note that when I submit this post, the characters change. I'm seeing 'symbols' mainly, some Asian characters (the form should be in English).
When printing, it comes out with something like:
%PDF-1.3
%aDuE
2 0 objtype /Type1
/BaseFont /H00 1000 1000 520 1000 74 1000 0 0 0 0
/CapHeight
     /LastChar 255
%Charwid8 592 779 650 650.   etc
/F002 6 0 R
Date=(0000000)
@SAP_OB    End TOA_DARA
>>
endob00327 00000 n
and so on...
For now we would like to validate the PDF printing before modifying any new print programs to automate the process.
Thanks-
Message was edited by: Chad Carter
Message was edited by: Chad Carter

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