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I have had this problem, particularly with Open Type fonts. It's very irritating, because it seems like most of the new fonts are being issued exclusively in Open Type.

I have developed a work-around, which you can attempt at your own risk.

Purchase the software FontCreator (I use FontCreator 5.6 Home Edition). It's not very expensive.

Open the problem font in FontCreator, and save it with a different name. In the process of saving it, the font will be converted to a TrueType font. Install the new version of the font. In my experience, you can then successfully use the font in Pagemaker, and convert it to a pdf.

This is not a perfect solution because there will be a *very* slight diminishment in the crispness of the lines of the font -- but this is only visible when the font is magnified to something like 6400% in Acrobat. It is not visible to the naked eye, or at least not to my naked eye.