Fonts from ArcMap to Illustrator

I believe the issue here is more Microsoft or ESRI's handling of fonts and fontnames and realise the Adobe way of handling all this seems much better at this type of thing but maybe some will be able to shed some light here if I don't get anything here I'll try the Illy forum for removing the faux-italic from Garamond Bold Italic once it's in Illustrator. Or should that now be Garamond Bold Italic Oblique. ;)
We are having some issues with getting correct fonts from ESRI's ArcMap. I believe a lot of the code of Arc is based on Microsoft code and it handles font selection in the Microsoft office (as oposed to Adobe) stylebuttons for bold and italic and seperate font entries for say light and bold. To get a semi bold (if in the font) you either select light and the bold button or the regular and the bold button.
PDF availible for anyone interested of the fonts onscreen appearance in ArcMap (Screenshots) and in Illustrator after after export to Ai from ArcMap. Font windows (screenshots) for these fonts in both applications are shown.
If we open up a fresh instance of Illustrator the typeface appear correctly on screen and in the font window.
If we the open FontTest.ai (an old version of Ai8 I believe) generated by ArcMap each font of the typeface appears on a separate line in the font chooser with the weight (and italic if italic) in both the typeface (top) and the font (bottom) panel of the Illustrator font window.
If we then close the document and create a new Illustrator document the fonts are still viewing incorrectly as above in the Illustrator font window.
If we close and open a new instance of Illustrator the fonts are back to normal.
Now the interesting bit. If we save the file FontTest.ai as a cs3 version and open this in our fresh instance of Illustrator the fonts are back to how they should be. Problem fixed except the faux-italic on the bold italic is still applied.
I decided to test in OpenOffice but that caused more (worse) problems. Will test in Word when I get to work.

Without having the originating font installed on your system, I don't think there is any way to do what you want in Illustrator. If the pdf fonts were outlined, it would be no trouble. But in order to edit the pdf in Illustrator, and save it back out to pdf again, you will need the fonts.

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