Phantom fonts in pdf documents

We create our company newsletter in Adobe InDesign CS3 on a Windows XP system.
We also post a pdf on our intranet, created with InDesign's export function.
Often, but not consistently, users complain about missing characters in the on-line version, viewed in our company-standard Internet Explorer v6.x. We've discovered that if they refresh their screens, the missing characters appear.
The missing characters are almost--but not quite--always in Minion Pro Open Type proportional old style. This is not a font routinely installed on company machines and I've wondered whether that is the source of the problem. However, I can't explain in that case why the refresh works.
Has anyone else encountered this? Solved it? How?
Thanks.

Hey Gustavo
Try this ,
File>Properties>Fonts
From here you will see the various fonts used in the PDF.
Further what you can do is ,
Go to Tools>Content Editing>Edit Text and Images.
Select a particular text or a file and you will be able to see the font of that selected text.
Try this and see does that help.
Regards
Sukrit Dhingra

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