T1s: Mac to PC-- stroke thickening?

I apologise that I'm posting this one here, but I'm not sure which other forum would include as many font experts.
Here's the question-
If you have a font from the same foundry, available on both platforms, will the results on film, from the same file always be identical?
I'm PC based, but many other designers working on the Mac have told me that they have tried this in production and noticed that the PC version always comes out thicker. Again, given identical foundry, identical hints, why should this happen? Sub Q: would a PDF workflow circumvent this?
Many thanks.
-BR

Thanks again Tom.
If by "select and reset" you mean add again F041 from the Unicode Hex to Favorites, and from there double click or drag & drop to the document, I did it and same results: a rectangle in Word, an "A" in Excel & Powerpoint and my signature in Outlook, Mail, Pages, Numbers and Keynote. All this by double clicking or drag & dropping the SAME F041, in which I can actually see my signature in Character Viewer.
The interesting thing is that it works well in MS Outlook and not in the other 3 components of MS Office.
Same thinking apply to text substitutions: Outllook take the Apple text substitution, but Word, Excel & Powerpoint do not.
On the other hand, David at MacForums suggested to change to Unicode Hex and from there hold the option key and type F041. It has the same behavior as your method (the drag & drop or double clik): It works in MS Outllok, Mail, Pages & Numbers (not Keynote). It does not work in Word (get a rectangle), Excel (get an "A"), Powerpoint (get an "A") and Keynote (get a square).
Is there anything else I can do to get it work in Word, Excel and Powerpoint, if not by text substitution (the ideal solution) at least by double click or drag & drop?
Thanks

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