The font issue is a known problem.
In your PDF writer you need to configure "download ALL fonts". Not all PDF writers can be thus configured; I have a freebie one (NovaPDF I think) which can't do this and I had to pay up for the full version to get that option. In the end, Adobe PDF writer and NovaPDF produce similar size files; with the latter being a bit bigger.
If you have Micro$oft Orifice 2003 or later, you should also have a printer called "MDI writer" or similar. This writes out an .mdi file which can be viewed in Orifice (and not much else).
Then there are various printer drivers which can produce image files e.g. TIF. I believe the current version of PrintNow can do that, but there are quite a few of them.