I'd try pdf2ps (included as part of Ghostscript on SL4) instead of 
Acrobat reader and see what happens.

AFAIK, Ghostscript doesn't share any code with Adobe products -- perhaps 
it will work better?  Also, the print-button in xpdf can generate 
postscript too.  There's a ps2pdf command, too, which can generate a PDF 
document from any postscript output that you like.

It's worth a shot, anyway...

-Luke


Miles O'Neal wrote:

>Bog standard SL304, Acrobat Reader 7:
>
>We have a PDF document from a customer that
>we can't print.    Other PDFs print fine,
>but when we try to print this one we get
>garbage.  I printed it to a file, and the
>PostScript has the same garbage.  For instance
>the words 'Java Core' comes out '3040)5 &$%';
>the word 'Espresso' comes out '!"#$%""&''
>
>The document displays fine.  It uses Arial
>and New Times Roman fonts.  We don't have
>Arial on our systems, but Reader subs
>something rational.  But printing - to a
>file, or any of our printers (standard PS
>or HPCL) gives us the same, bogus results.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>Miles
>  
>