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Cari is right. Internally, InDesign is a Unicode application, and with its Open Type support capable of supporting a large number of characters. Hence the use of CID encoding, which is a logical consequence of this unicode support, facilitating the representation of large character sets. And, although possibly no the most common occurence, InDesign isn't the only application producing CID encoding.
CID encoding is a standard feature of Adobe PostScript and has been in the language specification for a considerable amount of time. It's certainly not a cunning conspiracy by Adobe. Even most 'clone' manufacturers have been shipping RIP versions supporting these postscript features for quite some time now.
Note however, that unlike what Cari says, using Distiller instead is no guaranteed way of preventing CID encoding in PDF files; on occassion Distiller will also use CID encoding.
Henk
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