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Well, I just spent about an hour with tech support reaching the conclusion that there is a problem with the PdF import to print functionality within ACL.  It probably doesn't exists with all PdF files, but it did with the one I'm working on.

I have a file, it is nice and neat in the PDF.  There is a field with Vendor Names in it.  The field with vendor names shows about 15-20 characters and then the next field is Voucher.  When a vendor name has more than the number of characters, it simply truncates the vendor name.  Nice and neat.

Unfortunately, and this I didn't know, when you have a PdF, it may look like the voucher name was truncated, but the full vendor name is captured in the data and ACL doesn't read the image that is presented, but rather the data! 

This created two problems:
1)  Since some of the field names were larger than that defined by the PdF, the occassions where the field name was larger the voucher number was pushed to the line above... creating an empty line.
2) When the field names were shorter than that defined by the PdF, ACL read the lines as shorter, and every subsequent field was shifted over a certain number of characters to the left.  This meant that every trap and every field you created is off on those records!

We tried everything we could think of:

Saving the file as a text, loading it as other and then saving as a whole record, loading it as other and using delimited, loading it as a delimited text.  Nothing worked.