Optima letter 'f' will not print

This makes no sense, but ID will not print the letter 'f' captial or lowercase with any degree of consistency. Sometimes it will print it and sometimes it won't. Although it seems to really dislike the 'fl' combination.
The space those characters occupy is just left absent. Beginning of the word, middle doesn't matter. 'Flexibility' becomes ' exibility'. 'After' becomes 'A ter'.
While this appears to be random, when it decides not to print a specific 'f' or 'fl' combo, it will never print it. Deleting the text block and retyping doesn't work. We've even replaced the font file.
What gives?!
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The Optima family of fonts is indeed one of the printer-resident font families for Adobe PostScript 3 printers (or printers emulating same). The font in Adobe PostScript printers is Type 1 and sourced from the Linotype library. I have no idea of the lineage of the Agfa Monotype TrueType flavor of this font. However, both Acrobat and Reader download all fonts as part of their PostScript stream regardless of what the printer may or may not have as "resident" fonts. If for some reason, the PDF does not have the font embedded in it, a substitution font is used both for display and print.
You description of what happened when you "checked" the "download PPD fonts" in InDesign's print dialog is very consistent with what we know about expected print behaviour. What is very puzzling is what you are describing with regards to Acrobat and Reader! We need further information. (1) Exactly what printer model or models (not just manufacturer) is the file failing on from Acrobat and Reader? (2) What version of Acrobat or Reader are you using from what platform? (3) Please e-mail me a sample of the PDF file in question so that we can test it out here at Adobe.
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