Indesign export pdf font encoding ansi custom

After exporting an Indesign document to a pdf, I was wondering why some fonts appear twice the same with different font encodings.
As example, the font TnTFormBSK-Light appears once as font encoding ansi and a second time as font encoding Custom.
The export is done on a Macintosh with Indesign version 5.04.
Also when you do a preflight check with the Heidelberg Prinect tools, you get a warning that the font is using the same font UID's.
When you are using a bullet character, after exporting you get always the same font twice with different font encodings, ansi and Identity-H.
This is a known issue: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=329611&sliceId=1
I didn't found any reason about why Indesign is using the same font with encoding "ansi" and "Custom" and the same UIDs!
Can someone explain these?

Hi,
First off, the ANSI encoding can only handle certain characters. If the font has characters which are beyond that encoding, and the glyphs for those characters are embedded in the PDF (either because you used those characters, or because the entire font was embedded for some reason), then InDesign will embed it as two fonts, one with ANSI encoding (for the characters that can be covered that way), and one with a custom encoding. Sometimes you'll see CID-keyed fonts resulting from this sort of thing as well.
If the PDF export is splitting the font into two, it should remove the UniqueID from at least one of those. Embedding two distinct fonts with the same UniqueID looks like a bug to me. I suggest you report that to Adobe, here: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
Regards,
Thomas

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