Insufficient Data/Drawing Error

I had a pill of a job yesterday. PDF from customer, I imposed in InDesign 4, created PDF for proof out. In making the proof, InDesign kept coming up with "Insufficient data for an image" and "A drawing error occurred". Then the PDF proof would have only half of my imposed 4 up postcard image.
Acrobat told me it had a missing font, the customer said was not in the document at all. The pdf.log file indicated "bad FontBBox (typically a bug in Adobe 4.2 driver)". I don't think anyone was using Acrobat 4. I did try several versions of Acrobat by the way. The customer outlined all fonts the second try and I still got the font error. Could it have been in the marginal words that come in with the crop marks?
I was just wanting to narrow this down to a problem on customer's end or our end. The original PDF was created in InDesign 3. I am using InDesign 4. Believe it or not, I had to dummy it down to Quark 8 to get it to work. Amazing. Quark never works for this kind of stuff. InDesign always comes through for me.

You can try a few things to salvage it. First, try re-copying the original from disk, FTP, email, archive or wherever it came from. Update Acrobat to the latest patch. See if Preview will open it, if so, do a save-as*. Place it into an InDesign file and export to a new PDF, this is a long shot, but what the H.
*no guarantee that nothing has changed.

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