Trouble with characters with accent marks

Hi,
I have an Indesign document of Quebec. Many town names have characters with accent marks on them but when i create my PDF they show up as a small black box instead. Is there any way of fixing this, other than converting my type to paths?
I'm on a Mac using Indesign v3 and Acrobat v7
Thanks
Rick

oldtoby11 wrote:
OK i already had the Apr 2005 patch installed
i went to:
Indesign preferences
general tab
Font downloading and imbedding- Always subset fonts with glyph counts greater than 2000
Is this the right place?
I changed the number from 2000 to 200, (i also did it set at 20) but all that did was cause even more type to display as black boxes
I also went into my ID print settings and in the graphics tab i changed the fonts menu from "Complete" to "subset" and unchecked "download PPD fonts"
I also tried printing stright to PDF instead of postscripting and distilling
None of it changed anything or had any effect.
Since changing fonts in Freehand had an effect, could it be a corrupted font file?
No, no. Don't reduce the number in the prefs, and You DO want complete and download PPD fonts checked.
DId you try resaving with the same fonts in Freehand and making sure you chose to embed them? I was never a Freehand user, so I don't really know what options are available.

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