Getting small fonts embedded in Pages PDFs... how?

I have a Pages document that has a block of small (6pt and 7pt) type. When I create a PDF of the document, the OS X PDF creation system substitutes bit-maps for the characters, and there is a significant loss in legibility. If I create a similar PDF using Adobe Acrobat X (via the Print / PDF / Save as Adobe PDF method) these characters are represented correctly. Here is a illustration of the problem: first image via Adobe Acrobat, second image via OS X.
The document is intended to become a Template for use on our company's Mac computers (running iWork 09 / Mountain Lion currently), and these computers will need to be able to generate PDFs from the template. It is not helpful for us to have to install Acrobat X on every machine simply to allow this to happen.
Is there a way to adjust the settings for PDF creation within OSX to correct for this problem?
Any suggestions would be most gratefully received.

Hi Tom,
Really helpful suggestions. Don't solve problem, but do get me much closer. I checked the embedding information as you suggested, and the Font is being embedded in both the OS X document and the Acrobat document, but the way in which the font is embedded is different between the two documents.
Separately, I checked what the document looks like in Acrobat (not tried this previously, as most of our machines don't have it), and the two documents look the same. Also, Preview prints both documents to look the same.
So in a way I suppose I don't need to worry about it - it looks ugly, but is not affecting the function of the document generated. But would be better if I could get Preview to not produce jaggy text if I could (as we can't afford to install Acrobat on machines just to eliminate this problem). Any ideas?
Background information...
Here is the information reported by Acrobat about font embedding for the Frutiger Light font - first image for the OS X generated document, second for the Acrobat generated document:
The report on embedding is quite different.
The OS X generated file has embedded a "Type 1" subset of Frutiger Light five times, using Custom and or Roman encoding.
The Acrobat generated file has embedded a "Type 1" subset of Frutiger Light twice using ANSI and Custom encoding and has also embedded a third subset of type "Type 1 (CID)" with encoding "Identity-H".
Second, another view of the file when viewed in Preview, even more zoomed in that previous one - the first two images from left are OS X generated (export / best, print / save as PDF), the third is Acrobat generated, and has much less jagged edges on d or W for example:
Here are same documents (in same order) viewed in Acrobat - text renders the same in each case.

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