diff --git a/app/helpers/ifpdf_helper.rb b/app/helpers/ifpdf_helper.rb
index 5e7fb2898..585dbeeca 100644
--- a/app/helpers/ifpdf_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/ifpdf_helper.rb
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ module IfpdfHelper
       
     def Cell(w,h=0,txt='',border=0,ln=0,align='',fill=0,link='')
       @ic ||= Iconv.new(l(:general_pdf_encoding), 'UTF-8')
+      # these quotation marks are not correctly rendered in the pdf
+      txt = txt.gsub(/[“”]/, '"') if txt
       txt = begin
         # 0x5c char handling
         txtar = txt.split('\\')