Solution1:
When printing from Adobe Reader 10.x or 11.x using regular printing method, right-click print or similar methods, certain fonts are not printed correctly. This problem can arise using various output formats. The cause of the problem is Adobe Reader’s protected mode. Disabling protected mode can solve this issue.
-To disable Protected Mode in Adobe Reader 11, open Adobe Reader and go to the Edit > Preferences… > Security (Enhanced) > Uncheck Enable Protected Mode on Startup and restart Adobe Reader.
-To disable Protected Mode in Adobe Reader 10, open Adobe Reader and go to the Edit > Preferences… > General > Uncheck Enable Protected Mode on Startup and restart Adobe Reader.
Solution 2:
Printing from Adobe Reader will give me a gibberish output. The same happens if printing from Internet Explorer Adobe Reader Plug-in.
To avoid this problem, ensure that the printing application (Adobe Reader or browser plug-in) stays open until the printing is finished. If printing from Adobe Reader, do not close the document. If printing using the browser plug-in, do not navigate to another page or close the browser.
If printing from Adobe Reader, either from the desktop application or the browser plug-in, and the PDF document contains fonts that are unregistered on your system, the Adobe Reader writes these fonts into temporary files and registers them before printing. The name of the temporary font files usually start with Z@ (for example Z@R2.tmp). When Adobe Reader is closed, these files are deleted automatically.
Black Ice Printer Drivers is based on enhanced metafile format (EMF). The EMF file can only contain the name of the font but cannot contain the font itself. During printing, if the printer driver tries to use the specified font but the font does not exist (because the font files are already deleted), the font is replaced in the printed document. This is the reason why the printed document displays unexpected fonts.