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I do not recommend or support Allan's suggestions above.

(First, note that the issues in question don't apply to most Adobe creative applications, such as InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop. They only apply to more typical Windows applications.)

All Windows applications I've ever used CAN distinguish these fonts, and the users access the different fonts by use of bold and italic styling. This is simply how fonts work on Windows! There is no need to edit the fonts. If you look at, for example, Arial and Times New Roman on Windows, each has four fonts with the same family name (NameID 1) and different style names (NameID 2).

If you want to make Windows and Mac documents more compatible you can choose fonts on the Mac more like you would on Windows, by using the styling where a style-linked font exists, and only directly selecting the "base font" within any style linked group.

Yes, you could modify your Windows fonts to break the style links, and make them compatible with Mac fonts being selected separately. If you do that, your documents using the formerly-linked fonts will be incompatible with other Windows users, and incompatible with Mac users who *do* know the right way to make their docs more Windows-compatible.

Regards,

T

Thomas Phinney
Product Manager
Fonts & Global Typography
Adobe Systems