I've noticed that some fonts I'm using don't display correctly in Adobe Reader (or when printed using a Adobe PDF Library based RIP) if they are rotated. Whether I pre-rotate the PDF in iText as I did before we sent a similar file to our printer, or whether you view the right side up PDF in Adobe Reader and rotate the view, the some letters look wrong whenever they're dispalyed sideways.
Example PDF - this just has one big letter A: http://cl.ly/1c1q0l3F3f2s
Here's the problem. You can see that the bottom left of the A is screwed up when it's rotated. To see this with the above PDF, open it in Reader and go to View > Rotate View.
This doesn't happen in other PDF readers such as Chrome's but at the end of the day, our printer uses Adobe based technology and our prints come out wrong. Not rotating is not an option.
QUESTIONS:
1. Why is this happening?
2. How can I fix this? Is this a bug in the Adobe PDF Library?