Type not showing when opening pdf in Illustrator

Here's a strange problem that I don't recall having seen before.
I have a pdf file with diagrams of cupboards and tables with measurements. Everything looks o.k.
I open it in Illie (CS3) and everything shows up except the type. It is point type and only the points are there. I can drag over the type where the letters should be and there IS something there (coloured black according to the Color palette) but no recognizeable letters. I tried copying the type from the pdf and pasting into Illie but still no luck. I have the font (Syntax Roman) but the only way I can get it to work properly is to type the text in again manually. Any ideas please?

InDesign created this PDF and made the font a CID Identity-H font (not opentype, but similar in the respect that it has many more characters)
I am not an expert on this topic so you may get a better response reposting this here or in the acrobat forum with a new topic (eg: converting PDF CID fonts to .ai).
This tech note shows how to fix the problem if you have the original InDesign file.

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