Missing font warning in Illustrator

Hi,
I received a PDF document, which I have to rearange and redesigned. I assume that it was originaly created in Indesign and exported in PDF for printing. Since i don't have an Indesign file to work with, I opened PDF in Illustrator. When I do that, the missing font warning apears and says that Arial font (which I already have installed) will be displayed using substitue font. I am lost here, sice the text is in Slovak language and some of the letters are missing with this "substitute font". Appreciate any help.
Maja

Not really certain what you are asking.
You need the exact version of Arial that was used to generate the PDF if you don't want any substitution. It sounds as though the PDF was generated poorly. Not much cna be done on your end without the exact font other than to simply re-key or reconstruct the text. Realize that there are probably 20 different fonts all named "Arial."

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Mark,
you are a legend!!!!
with yours and Carlos' help I think I have raged against the system that is Adobe and come out victorious!!!!!!!!
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