I was able to correct the printout discrepancy by adding this code to the ReportListener. It removes any leading / trailing spaces on the objects being rendered. When this code is applied, the output from PDF3 is identical to that of CutePDF when captured on the normal print operation:

PROCEDURE EvaluateContents
LPARAMETERS nFRXRecno, toObj	&& toObj actually is "oObjProperties"

    * Does it need extra spaces removed?
    IF ALLTRIM(toObj.text) == toObj.text
        RETURN  && No
    ENDIF
	
    * We want to render just the content, not the leading/trailing spaces
    toObj.reload = .t.
    toObj.text   = ALLTRIM(toObj.text)

It may not work in everyone's case if you are expressly sending leading spaces, for example, for alignment. But in our app's case it does work.

>Hi Rick,
>
>PDF3 is derived report listener.
>All metadata (text, value, left, top, width, height) are the same for PDF3 and each report listener (base or derived).
>
>MartinaJ