Exporting to pdf: don't need fonts, do need links. How?

I'm using InDesign CS4, upgraded from PageMaker last summer.
I produce a couple of simple, mostly text newsletters using only basic fonts. In PageMaker I could prevent fonts from being embedded but in InDesign there doesn't seem to be a way to do that.
Then in Acrobat (v6 if it matters) when I go into PDF Optimizer to try to remove them, no fonts show up on the list. Yet the fonts are listed as embedded under Document Properties, and the Audit space shows that 65% is fonts.
I read here that I can print from InDesign to the Acrobat print driver and control it that way, but then the hyperlinks don't get included.
Here is an old newsletter pdf created from PM, and the same thing converted to InDesign and exported. (there may be small differences from the conversion)
http://www.sginews.com/v26n04pagemaker.pdf (76KB)
http://www.sginews.com/v26n04indesign.pdf (253KB)
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jbsgi wrote:
Thank you for replying.
I'm fine with the reader's reader substituting Times for Times New Roman, Helvetica for Arial, etc. As you can see from the pub, precise typography isn't all that important.
But you have no way to ensure that even those fonts are available on the viewer’s computer. Even if they are, how do you know how the substitution will occur? If I just replace every glyph (letter, numeral, symbol, etc.) in one font with another, but leave the glyphs where they are I might make the text unreadable.
100 kb is a pitifully small threshold for saving a file for offline viewing. Unless this is meant to be read in Kazakhstan, then I’d ignore this arbitrary file size limit.
About the hyperlinks issue when distilling a PostScript file: there’s nothing you can do about that, since PostScript files do not support hyperlinks. But you can export a PDF with hyperlinks, then Distill a PostScript file. Open the exported PDF and use Document > Replace Pages. Replace all the pages in the open (exported) PDF with all the pages in the Distilled PDF. Hyperlinks will remain.

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