Moving Pagemaker to Indesign for Devnagri Fonts

Hi,
I want to move from pagemaker to Indesign CS6, but i am having issues with opening pagemaker files indesign for devnagri fonts
1. Able to open the pagemaker file but its not detecting font, its displaying garbage
2. I could have used the find font and replace with required one but unfortunately the file contains more than one font, we use different font for Main heading, subheading, body etc
3. I have lot of the older files to move up and not the just one file, each file contains lot of pages
I am attaching a sample pagemaker file and fonts which will help you to diagnose the issue

@Peter – and there seems to be another problem with the provided TT fonts: They cannot be embedded in PDFs. The permission in the font is set to "Not embedable with PDF".
Tried the conversion process on Mac OSX 10.6.8 with InDesign CS5.5 and CS6.
Same problems found. Some glyphs are not showing up, even if I assign the provided fonts to the converted text.
Since the provided glyph set is not compatible with OTF encoding we could only do a large GREP Search/Replace action for every single gylph if we want to use something like an OTF Devanagari font. Simply assigning an OTF font is useless.
You can compare single glyphs and their codepoints in the provided TTF with the Unicode code points needed:
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf
And as you can see here the TTF font is using the wrong code point in regards to Unicode (example: 0928 न DEVANAGARI LETTER NA)
Uwe

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