Small Cap Fonts

I am trying to figure out how to use a small cap font when creating a PDF document manually... for example:
7 0 obj
<<
/Type/Font
/Name /T5
/BaseFont/Helvetica,SmallCap
/Subtype/Type1
/Encoding /WinAnsiEncoding
>>
endobj
I've tried many different variations around this basic structure, and I have tried including a fontDescriptor
7 0 obj
<<
/Type/FontDescriptor
/Flags 131104 %NonSymbolic & Small Caps
endobj
Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Thanks!
Corey

> What I am not fully clear is how to use styled variations.
These are either separate fonts or typesetting effects.
>
> What I am trying to figure out is how to use Helvetica in small cap style.
>It seems that you are telling me that I would need to embed a Helvetica small caps font - but I don't know where to get it or how to embed it.
It's not clear whether such a thing even exists. Certainly, no such
font is commonly found, nor an Arial small caps.
If you had the font, the PDF Reference tells you how to embed it,
though this is a major project (people often find the scope of the PDF
generation project multiplies by 10 at this point).
>
>I have adobe
Big company, Adobe. What of their software do you have?
> I can print a Word document with small cap text to a pdf, and it works fine, but looking the file, I can't tell where it has gotten the font information.
Since you almost certainly don't have the font, this leaves us with
typographic effect. Just use capital letters in the regular font, but
use them smaller. This wouldn't satisfy a typographer, but if you are
happy with what Word does, go for it.
Use font metrics to determine the ascent of nondescending lower case
and upper case letters in your target font, and scale accordingly (so
your upper case is the same height as a lower case character).
> when I select to use small caps on a font in MS Word, do I have a specific small cap font installed, or is word doing its magic with the base font and different sizes?
Word is doing some simple magic. Even if you purchased and installed a
small caps font, Word would have no way to use it unless you selected
the font: Windows has no style linking beyond bold and italics.
Windows will in fact fake missing bold and italic, which is considered
in typographical terms truly evil.
Aandi Inston

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