Using Visual Studio 2005, I created a report for a client, exported it to PDF and emailed it to her.
She emailed back to say (in a very polite way) that I really messed up my spelling. The word “ecomomist” was “economisti” (hence, the Russian joke). “Star” had become “Stiar”. “Street” was now “Stireeti”.
After fiddling around for a while, I realized that the problem was my use of the beautiful and very readable Calibri font. The report was created in Crystal Reports. Using the embedded “Export to PDF” seemed to be the culprit. When I switched back to Arial font, the exported PDF was fine. As another test, I whipped up a report using Microsoft's report component in Visual Studio 2005. That also has the ability to export to PDF and that exported the Calibri font just fine.So without spending a lot of time experimenting with every report component out there, I'll just venture a guess that this will be a hit or miss problem with some reports and some fonts.
Either way, it provided some amusement to start the day out with.