Font in swf file changes with indesign

Hi, I am creating an indesign presentation, and have included a swf movie I created in Flash Professional. The movie contains some text, which appears fine in Flash Pro and fine in the indesign preview tool, but once the indesign file is exported to a swf file itself, the font changes to something different. I have made the text field into a movie symbol in Flash after finding this issue the first time, but this has not corrected it. Is there anyway I can correct this please?
Thanks

Thanks. I'm going to have to find out the process behind that as I'm not sure how to do it - exporting the flash animation as a swf file is also creating a swz file that I assumed was all the text info needed, but it doesnt seem to help in this matter. In the mean time I have done the text parts in Photoshop, simplified the layers and then imported them as png images, and that has seemed to fix the issue.
Thanks for your response!

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