Exporting Pages documents as Word loses italics.

Can they be preserved? How?
I love Pages 4.1 otherwise. This makes me very sad.

When you insert a piece of text using Times Italic, you no longer use the font :
"TimesNewRomanPSMT" which is the standard one
but : "TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT" which is the italic one.
Maybe this one is unavailable in the PC running Word and so, substituted by the standard font.
justinfrommartinez wrote:
I'm just a little bent to purchase commercial software with the idea that it will be as bitchen as my new MBP, and have a 1995 problem like this hit me upside the 32 page, footnoted, and heavily cited article as I go to export & send to the editor. I had similar issues in college (~1995), and am incensed that exportability of Apple word processing documents to MS Word is not closer to perfect sixteen years later.
The first Pages version was introduced in 2005 so it's not 16 years after but six years after.
Don't dream,Pages will never be 100% compatible with Word. It was not designed to achieve this goal.
If you want to build 100% compatible documents, you must use Word or one of its free clones and I'm not sure that your docs will be rendered exactly the same way on PC or on mac.
Apple goal wasn't and I hope that it will never be to clone Word behavior.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 26 octobre 2011 18:12:38
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2
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