InDesign to pdf problems

Using iMac 10.5.6 - InDesign CS4
On two different documents I had to use the glyphs for fractions. When doing a pdf on both, on one the factions came out and on the other, the fractions did not appear...just small squares in their place. Settings on both appear to be the same but I'm no whiz on pdf's!!! Help!

Thanks for the reply. I make the PDF from the presets in InDesign. Indeed it seems like the fonts (or the fractions anyway) are not imbedding. But on one document they are imbedding fine and the other not. Both PDF's are made the same. I don't understand why one would imbed and the other not...especially since no settings have been changed.

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