Problem  

Bug ID: 4928658 

Affects the following locales: 

• Asian locales

• Polish locales

• Russian locales

You cannot use GNOME applications to create PDF documents that contain multibyte characters. This problem affects Gedit and other GNOME applications that use the libgnomeprint library.

Solution  

Print your files to postscript, and then use the ps2pdf utility to convert the postscript file into a PDF file.