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Herb wrote:

A downside of that approach [The MS faux fonts vs. real bold & italic) 
is that there's no way to tell if the font has the alternate styles 
available


To which Dom replied:

Not so for MS apps, at least. They will usually say in the font 
dialogue whether a font is "installed for screen display only" and, if 
so, "the closest available font will be used for printing". This is 
MS's way of saying a faux font will be used.

And Herb adds:

[Comments are based on MS Office 2003]

That message, very small at the bottom of a crowded dialog box, is 
almost NEVER noticed and almost as rarely is it even seen! The dialog 
box itself is seldom used by most people; of course for those people 
who never use it, it probably doesn't matter anyway.

The messages presented there differ between Type 1 and Truetype fonts. 
Both are misleading.

For an installed TrueType font-style, the message reads:
   "This is a True Type font. This font will be used on both printer 
and screen."

For an installed Type 1 or OTF font-style, it reads:
   "This is a scalable printer font. The screen image may not match 
printed output."

MS Office Apps describe Type 1 and .otf fonts as "Printer Fonts", and 
associate a printer-looking icon in font selection drop-down lists.

Selected styles that are NOT available, either TT or T1, yield the 
same message:
   "This font style is imitated for display. The closest matching 
style will be printed."

  - Herb