Font problems exporting an ePub

Hi, I'm trying to create my first ePub eBook and I seem to be falling at the first hurdle.
I have all the text in Paragraph and Character Styles and I'm using OpenType fonts and I just can't get a sans-serif font to export properly – I've tried Helvetica, Trebuchet, Arial - they all turn up in the eReader (Adobe Digital Editions) as some serif font I can't identify.
On Item Info in ADE I get Error E_PKG_ENCRYPTION_XML_NO_RESOURCE
Also when I export a long document of a few thousand words the ePub doc finishes half way through – I'm hoping this may not be the case once I have split the document up into smaller chapters. But I've isolated one page and I still can't get this font and error issue sorted out.
Any ideas

Also ask in the forum for Pages perhaps:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/iwork/pages

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