Sounds as if the PDFs you are placing were exported using the JAWS
engine in Quark.
Take your new InDy document and print to PostScript and Distill to a
new PDF
then
replace the PDFs in your document with the Distilled ones.
or
You could try opening the PDFs in Acrobat and "Save as" eps files and
place those into InDesign.

MSD

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On Aug 13, 2010, at 2:43 AM, InDesign Talk wrote:

> Client sends PDF, wants it rearranged in printer's spreads.
> According to
> the PDF properties, all fonts are embedded subsets.
>
> I place the pages in a new ID document, print as booklet, and a
> headline
> set in Goudy (Type 1, according to the PDF properties) on the front
> cover is all bunched up -- all of the characters on top of each
> other in
> one space.


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