diff --git a/PROMS/Volian.Print.Library/Grid2Pdf.cs b/PROMS/Volian.Print.Library/Grid2Pdf.cs
index d82530a2..3a19cfae 100644
--- a/PROMS/Volian.Print.Library/Grid2Pdf.cs
+++ b/PROMS/Volian.Print.Library/Grid2Pdf.cs
@@ -403,7 +403,16 @@ namespace Volian.Print.Library
 						DisplayText dt = new DisplayText(MyFlexGrid.GetMyItemInfo(), str, false);
 						str = dt.StartText;
 						str = PreProcessRTF(w, str);
-						iTextSharp.text.Paragraph myPara = RtfToParagraph(str);
+
+						// If the font is not proportional, pass the symbol font through to RtfToParagraph.  It is needed
+						// in underlying code to set the chunk's font if the first character of a cell is a hardspace.  Without
+						// this, pdfs were using the Helvetica font, which is a default itextsharp font.
+						ItemInfo ii = MyFlexGrid.GetMyItemInfo();
+						iTextSharp.text.Font ff = null;
+						if (!ii.FormatStepData.Font.FontIsProportional()) 
+								ff = Volian.Svg.Library.VolianPdf.GetFont("VESymbFix", (int)ii.FormatStepData.Font.Size, (int)ii.FormatStepData.Font.WindowsFont.Style);
+						iTextSharp.text.Paragraph myPara = RtfToParagraph(str, ff);
+
 						myColumnText1.SetSimpleColumn(0, 0, w-2, MyContentByte.PdfDocument.PageSize.Top); // Padding = 4
 						if (str.Contains(@"\'05"))
 						{
@@ -648,10 +657,11 @@ namespace Volian.Print.Library
 			str = _StatRTB.Rtf;
 			return str;
 		}
-		public static iTextSharp.text.Paragraph RtfToParagraph(string rtf)
+		public static iTextSharp.text.Paragraph RtfToParagraph(string rtf, iTextSharp.text.Font mySymFont)
 		{
 			IRtfDocument rtfDoc = RtfInterpreterTool.BuildDoc(rtf);
 			Rtf2iTextSharp rtf2IText = new Rtf2iTextSharp(rtfDoc);
+			rtf2IText.DefaultFont = mySymFont;
 			iTextSharp.text.Paragraph para = rtf2IText.Convert();
 			para.SetLeading(_SixLinesPerInch, 0);
 			return para;
diff --git a/PROMS/Volian.Print.Library/Rtf2iTextSharp.cs b/PROMS/Volian.Print.Library/Rtf2iTextSharp.cs
index f1a752dc..84a63d8b 100644
--- a/PROMS/Volian.Print.Library/Rtf2iTextSharp.cs
+++ b/PROMS/Volian.Print.Library/Rtf2iTextSharp.cs
@@ -106,6 +106,18 @@ namespace Volian.Print.Library
 		private IRtfDocument _RtfDoc;
 		private Paragraph _MyParagraph = new Paragraph();
 		private iTextSharp.text.Font _MyFont;
+
+		// Allow for definition of a default font:  if the font is not proportional, this gets set.  
+		// It is needed to set the chunk's font if the first character of a cell is a hardspace (or various
+		// other special cases (see its use below).  Without this, pdfs were using the Helvetica font, 
+		// which is a default itextsharp font (this was causing a problem for HLP, their pdfs could not
+		// contain a Helvetica font when putting them in their production environment).
+		private iTextSharp.text.Font _DefaultFont;
+		public iTextSharp.text.Font DefaultFont
+		{
+			get { return _DefaultFont; }
+			set { _DefaultFont = value; }
+		}
 		//		public Rtf2iTextSharp(IRtfDocument rtfDoc, Document doc, PdfWriter writer)
 		public Rtf2iTextSharp(IRtfDocument rtfDoc)
 		{
@@ -149,40 +161,49 @@ namespace Volian.Print.Library
 			}
 			//_MyParagraph.Add(string.Format("<{0}>", visualBreak.BreakKind.ToString()));
 		}
+		private void AddChunk(string str, iTextSharp.text.Font font)
+		{
+			if (font == null)
+				_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk(str));
+			else
+				_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk(str, font));
+		}
 		protected override void DoVisitSpecial(IRtfVisualSpecialChar visualSpecialChar)
 		{
 			//_MyParagraph.Add(string.Format("<special {0}>", visualSpecialChar.CharKind.ToString()));
+			iTextSharp.text.Font activeFont = _MyFont ?? DefaultFont;
 			switch (visualSpecialChar.CharKind)
 			{
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.Bullet:
-					_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk("\u2022"));
+					AddChunk("\u2022", activeFont);
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.EmDash:
-					_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk("\u2014"));
+					AddChunk("\u2014", activeFont);
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.EmSpace:
-					_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk("\u2003"));
+					AddChunk("\u2003", activeFont);
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.EnDash:
-					_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk("\u2013"));
+					AddChunk("\u2013", activeFont);
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.EnSpace:
-					_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk(" "));
+					AddChunk(" ", activeFont);
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.LeftDoubleQuote:
-					_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk("\u201C"));
+					AddChunk("\u201C", activeFont);
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.LeftSingleQuote:
-					_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk("\u2018"));
+					AddChunk("\u2018", activeFont);
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.NonBreakingHyphen:
-					_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk("\u2011"));
+					AddChunk("\u2011", activeFont);
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.NonBreakingSpace:
-					_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk("\u00A0"));
+					//iTextSharp.text.Font font = Volian.Svg.Library.VolianPdf.GetFont(sdf);
+					AddChunk("\u00A0", activeFont);
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.OptionalHyphen:
-					_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk("\u00AD"));
+					AddChunk("\u00AD", activeFont);
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.ParagraphNumberBegin:
 					break;
@@ -191,10 +212,10 @@ namespace Volian.Print.Library
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.QmSpace:
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.RightDoubleQuote:
-					_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk("\u201D"));
+					AddChunk("\u201D", activeFont);
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.RightSingleQuote:
-					_MyParagraph.Add(new Chunk("\u2019"));
+					AddChunk("\u2019", activeFont);
 					break;
 				case RtfVisualSpecialCharKind.Tabulator:
 					break;