IDCS3 font issues on final printjob, not in IDCS3 nor Acrobat

Something odd happened.
We use IDCS3 for designing a 24p tabloid newspaper for 4 issues now. It works fast and efficient, our workflow process has been cut down from 3 weeks to 3 days since we migrated from Coreldraw (yes you read right - sigh).
We didn't encounter any problems for the last issues, till now.
We received a container full of newspapers from the printing company with some strange font errors.
On some advertisings some used fonts are substituted with -seemingly inconsistent- different fonts. None of the affected fonts were too exotic. Arial, even a plain simple Courier was substituted with something different
for example some lines read this:
Yg"cuukuv"{qw"ghhgevkxgn{"
Not on all pages though. It is a mistery.
I firstly thought we didn't do enough quality control on our final pdf files. So I opened the pdf again, especially looking for the affected pages/areas. Seems to show up perfectly on my screen. The final printjob was different than our pdf.
After that one of our designers come to report me a problem on his computer. Every time he opens the .indd file IDCS3 complains about a missing 'Arial Bold' font. No complains about the 'Courier New' font though.
My question. Who is to blame for this error. Is it us - the under experienced InDesign newbies - or is it our printing company? Should they have seen this? Did we do anything wrong? Is the fontproblem on the design computer to blame? Why it happened with such a standard fonts?
Any suggestions are welcome. Would be happy to supply more details.
Thanks
Karel

Open the original PDF and go to the File Properties > Fonts tab. Make sure the fonts are all embedded. It sounds as if they are not.
The "blame," if there is any, would be assigned based on a number of factors. If the fonts are all properly embedded, it sounds like the printer is doing the substitution (though I have no idea how). There was an issue, I believe in CS1, with subset fonts in nested PDFs (PDFs placed into ID documents and then exported again as PDF) not being properly recognized if more than one PDF used the same font, but different subsets, but to the best of my knowledge that has long since been corrected.
If the fonts are not all shown as embedded, it can be caused by failure on the part of the person making the PDF to specifically embed them (typically in a distilled PDF), or it may be that the font itself does not allow embedding, in which case it is a poor choice and should not be used for this kind of work. When exporting, InDesign automatically embeds all western fonts with appropriate permissions, but not all applications are so helpful.
Peter

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