When opened in Adobe Reader it says that the file "claims compliance". However, when verifying the compliance with some validation tools there seem to be some issues mainly related but not limited to fonts. 

When merging, only the widgets are copied but not their fields. This can lead to ArgumentNullException when exporting the document. Implement copying the fields and consider cases which include collision of names of the fields.

Workaround:
Repair the generated document using the following code:
foreach (Widget widget in this.pdfDocument.Annotations.Where(annot => annot.Type == AnnotationType.Widget))
{
    if (!this.pdfDocument.AcroForm.FormFields.Contains(widget.Field.Name))
    {
        this.pdfDocument.AcroForm.FormFields.Add(widget.Field);
    }
}
In case of Name collision, you can use the attached project or the attached project to the following feedback item to rename the duplicate fields: Provide a way to rename FormFields.

For example exporting the text "\uD83D\uDE0A" with "Segoe UI Symbol" font family should export a single smiling face. Instead the characters are skipped during the export as PdfProcessing is trying to export them as separate char values ("\uD83D" and "\uDE0A") and the font does not contain glyphs corresponding to these char codes.

TableRow which has defined an only val attribute of the trHeight is imported as a row with auto height. By the specification, this is right, but MS Word takes the val value as row height. Also MS Word exports "At Least" row height with only 'val' set.

Workaround: Iterate through the table rows and set them HeightType to Exact or AtLeast:

foreach (var row in this.document.EnumerateChildrenOfType<TableRow>())
{
    row.Height = new TableRowHeight(HeightType.AtLeast, row.Height.Value);
}

This is reproducible with specific PDF files which use custom Encoding for the fonts of the field widgets. 

WORKAROUND: Change the font of VariableContentWidgets before editing the field value. You should additionally call RecalculateContent() method of these widgets if the value of their corresponding fields is not edited. The following method may be used for changing the font of all existing widgets in the document:

private static void FixEncodingIssues(RadFixedDocument document)
{
    foreach(Annotation annotation in document.Annotations)
    {
        VariableContentWidget widget = annotation as VariableContentWidget;

        if(widget != null)
        {
            widget.TextProperties.Font = FontsRepository.Helvetica;
        }
    }
}

Table and table cell borders are not evaluated according to inheritance and conflict resolution rules. A conflict will occur when different borders from the table and table cell are overlapping. 

The GetActualValue method of the TableBorders and TableCellBorders could potentially return an incorrect value in some of the following scenarios:

Scenario 1:
A table has cell spacing set to 0. Meaning that the table and table cell borders will overlap.
The table borders have defined all of its borders with border style "Single".
The table cell borders have all of its borders defined with border style "None".

Expected result: the resulting borders should have the border style set to "None" for the location where the table and the cell borders are overlapping.

Scenario 2:
A table has explicitly defined that its right border is with border style "None".
The table has a table style applied with defined border style of type "Single" for all table borders.

Expected result: All of the table borders except the right border should have border style of "Single".

The problem is mostly visible when exporting to PDF and RTF format.

In the document produced by the mail merge, the date time and numeric formatting applied are not respected and the value is in its default format. 

CryptographicException is thrown when saving with PdfStreamWriter or importing with PdfFormatProvider.

The exception: System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: 'The input data is not a complete block.'

The issue is observed with tables that have a specific width (in inches or percents) but whose columns do not have width specified. MS Word renders such tables expanded to their full width. For tables with 100% width, they have to expand to the entire width of the page. The same behavior is expected in the PDF export.

As a common side effect, when specific text alignment (e.g. center or right) is applied to a paragraph within a table cell, and the table is with specified width, but the column is auto-sized (without set width), then the text alignment seems as not respected. Actually the problem is that the column table is shrunk to the text width.

Workaround: this may be used before exporting the RadFlowDocument instance to PDF:

foreach (Table table in document.EnumerateChildrenOfType<Table>())
{
    table.LayoutType = TableLayoutType.FixedWidth;
}


Workaround 2:

Set specific width to the auto-sized columns (to any of the cells in the columns):

cell.PreferredWidth = new Telerik.Windows.Documents.Flow.Model.Styles.TableWidthUnit(500);

Available in R1 2018 SP2 release version.

When importing a not embedded TrueType Font defined as Type 1 subtype Font an InvalidCastException is thrown.

In PDF document:

<< /BaseFont /Arial /Encoding 21 0 R /Name /F13 /Subtype /Type1 /Type /Font >>

In Adobe Reader:

When a TrueType font is defined, the mapping of character codes to glyph indices depends on the built-in cmap table mappings defined in the font and the Encoding property defined in the PDF dictionary.

However, the current implementation maps all characters with cmap tables for Microsoft Symbolic and Macintosh Roman, which causes incorrect mapping results, e.g. space characters are mapped to an Ê glyph.

The issue is also described in the following public item: TryGetCharCode for OpenTypeFont uses wrong cmap and returns wrong charcode.

Workaround: Change the font  of the TextBoxField's widget appearance:
foreach (var widget in field.Widgets)
{
    widget.TextProperties.Font = FontsRepository.Helvetica;
}

Currently this exception crashes the whole PDF document import. Instead we should simply skip the unsupported Action and import the rest of the PDF content correctly.

When xlsx/docx document is imported, and its main story is with non-default name ('workbook. xml'/'document.xml'), e.g. workbook2.xml/document2.xml, NullReferenceException is thrown and the document is not imported.

Note: Such documents are usually produced after conversion from a template dotx/xlsm.

Some of the leftmost borders are omitted when exported to PDF.