Comment 14 for bug 199689

Confirmed here as well. OpenOffice 3 "File->Export as PDF..." works OK. However, print to PS printer and then convert via pdfwrite in Ghostscript, or print to CutePDF (basically same thing) gives garbled text, due to a font subset with nonstandard character encoding. This problem is specific to some fonts: a more standard one ("Times New Roman") works fine even via CutePDF, etc.

Bottom line: OpenOffice PDF export generates better quality PDF than print-to-PDF from either OO or MS Word. I guess it is not too surprising.