You need to embed the fonts into the document. If you don't do that you just get a series of squares and lines where the notes should be.

..........and how do I do that?

I don't use CutePDF so I can't really tell you, however, in Adobe Acrobat there is a checkbox option when you "print" the file that lets you select whether or not to embed the fonts. There might be a similar option in CutePDF.

I don't see anything like that.

Personally, I use PDF995; All you do is hit 'print' from file, select the pdf995 as default printer, and it prints exactly what's on your screen - whether it's a Word document or a Finale file.

There's a free alternative called PDFCreator which I personally use as a default software printer. It's at sourceforge.net. You can always trust open source programmers to come up with something good every once in a while.

I was wondering why you need it to be a PDF. Why don't you just leave it as a tiff. A tiff is supported by more systems. Is there a different advantage or something.

Not true. More people know how to use PDFs because more software packages are using the PDF to hold help manuals and the corporate world loves PDFs. PDFs are very ubiquitous. I guarantee you'll get more people who know how to use a PDF than how, or what will open a tiff.

I use win2pdf. it converts any file in any program to a pdf. It works like a printer. You choose it as your printer so the image is sent to the program not your actual printer. win2pdf