Using Save As Reduced Size PDF in Adobe Acrobat X Pro results in a loss of font.

We have multiple paged PDF documents (mapbooks created with Esri's ArcMap) that we would like to reduce in size. When we us the Save As Reduced SIze PDF, the PDF is successfully reduced in size and looks good, except for the fact that starting on page 2, the Times New Roman font is lost and we get a sans-serif font instead (looks like arial). The first page is always fine and not affected. It's starting with the second page where the font is lost. Does anyone have an idea of why that might be happening and how we can use the Reduce File Size feature without losing the font starting on the second page?

Thanks Bill, that worked after some trial and error. I was still getting the same problem when I just accepted the default settings for PDF Optimizer. But I got rid of the problem by creating a Custom setting and turning off the optimization for everything except Image. And for the Image optimization, I just accepted the defaults. That took care of the changing fonts problem. Here is a screenshot of the settings I used (just make sure the check boxes circled are turned off, and only the image compression is turned on):

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