Italic and faux-italic in FrameMaker

[Steve Rickaby]

Font: Bitstream Revival 565 BT, FrameMaker 7.0.

On Mac FrameMaker, the italic of this font is a true italic. When the same template is used in FrameMaker 7 on PC with the 'same' font (i.e. PC version from the same source), the italic is a synthesized italic, which is completely different in appearance. Nothing changed in the template.

Does anyone have any idea why this should be? Is it a FrameMaker thing, or is it just a defect of the font in question?

I will attack it with TransType and a large hammer, and try to find out what's actually inside the PC version.
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Steve