The only interesting screenshot is the one with your settings, for the others: We usually believe, that you see the issue. The question is often, if “we” can reproduce the problem to find a cause/work-around/bug-report etc.
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So, if you beleivei or not there is some sense in the limit.
Also pleas consider spam/advertisements. So new users have tp be limited unless they can be ruled out to spam a thread.
Thanks for your response.
Regarding the screenshots, I’ve been a software developer my entire life (>30 years) and from experience I know that adding screenshots in the bug report (even when the data is also delivered in an attachment) has added value; the person that is reading (or quickly assessing) the bug report, can just keep on reading it, supported by the screenshots. It adds speed and extra clarity / confirmation, without having to switch to saving the files and opening them.
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In any way, most important is that the bug needs attention. 
But bug reports (even great ones!) are off-topic here! Incorrect expectation, that this is a bug tracker, is likely the reason why you were so upset?
It seems that Arial is a very old font, current version 2.55 was shipped on 4th November 1998, see Arial font family - Typography | Microsoft Learn . Microsoft is on to its second default font since then, from Calibri around 2007 to now Aptos.
If I look at the Fonts embedded in the PDF, I see only ArialMT, not Arial
If I set the Default cell style to Liberation Sans (same metrics as Arial) then the pdf is rendered correctly.
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I see Windows 11 uses Arial version 7.00 (or 7.01, maybe a fix for Arial?)
If I export to pdf in Mint Linux with MS-Core-fonts (Arial 2.82) then the pdf exports OK
If I export to pdf in Windows 10 (Arial 6 & also when updated to Arial 7.00) the pdf exports OK
Thx. I tested this with Liberation Sans and indeed the PDF seems to render correctly everytime. I’ll switch to that.
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Still its strange that with Arial there is a mixed result in exporting to PDF. Varying from not including the italic texts at all, to including the italic texts, but not in italic and including italic as it should.
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Before I used OpenOffice Calc for at least 10 years, never had an issue with exactly the same Calc sheets and Italic Arial. Recently installed LibreOffice, and within 2 or 3 PDF exports I noticed this issue and had to revert back to OpenOffice Calc, working just fine.
which indeed indicates a problem that needs to be solved. However, I must say, that while I was able to reproduce the “including the italic texts, but not in italic” part using v25.8, I do not reproduce it using current master (toward 26.2); which may indicate either that it was fixed in master, or that it doesn’t manifest in a debug build.
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For what it is worth I pretty much only used Liberation Serif… I won’t be working on projects like these until next month but I’m happy to report back in if they are still bugged on the new version.