Small Caps CS6 printing incorrect characters

Windows 7, CS6, Universal Type Client (extensis)
Working files for over a year all ok. Now when printing files, random characters which are using 'small caps' in character style are being mapped to different characters. Workaround is to close file, shutdown system & restart. Reprint same file & characters are ok. Has anyone seen this happen?

Sounds like a font clash.
Are you using any font management systems?
Have got a version installed in your System Fonts and in your Adobe Fonts folder?
Try and trace the original font that's used and archive the other fonts you can find in folders.

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I have a HP 4500 wireless printer-and downloaded the driver from the web site( I had originally installed this via the disk)
Still have a problem, which is now worse than before when it printing a PDF-top half prints correctly-bottom half-characters, etc.
Some of the document in the middle is correct.
Any idea.s

It sounds like the PDF program has become corrupted. I have seen many cases where printing the PDF comes out as described and repairing the installation of the PDF program (usually Adobe Reader) typically corrects it. It actually has very little to do with the printer or print driver as the corruption of the print job happens from the program source and the printer only prints what it receives. If it is the printer driver, it should be happening with other programs as well. Since the driver was updated and it still occurs, then it sounds like the PDF program is corrupted.
Here is a help document from Adobe detailing how to repair the installation. Adobe Reader is the most common PDF printing program. If you are using a different program, please let me know.
Let me know what happens.
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Print is 11 x 18 in LR4-Print module & much smaller in CS6 (same print). What is the problem?

I use CS6 on a Mac pro os 10.8.3 & print to an Epson Pro 4900.
If I print an image via LR4 print module the print comes out at 12 X18 in. Recently I have tried that same image via CS6 and the print comes out at 6 5/8 X 8 1/2 in.
In Print Settings in Printer Setup in the print module of CS6 stats "Super A3 / B 13 X 19 but the printed image dimensions are a little over half of that.
The printer used to print normally in CS6 print file.

I tried your suggestions without success.
I went back and tried adjusting the "Scale:" percentage in "Scaled Print Size"
The image size in the Image Dialogue box is 11 X 16.5 in.
In the Print Dialogue Window the following info is:
Printer EpsonStylusPro4900-26A688
Paper Size Super A / B 13 X 19 in
I then printed out the image after adjusting the Scale percentage which yielded the following results:
At Scale 100% the print comes out at 6.5 X 8 in
At Scale 200% the print comes out at 6.5 X 8 in
At Scale 25% the print comes out at 2.75 X 4.12 in
It appears to me that CS6 is applying an upper size limit but I don't have any idea why.

I am stuck in small caps in cs6 in design anyone

now what first time using community i posed the question what do i do now.

It seems likely that you have acitved the button for small caps. Look at the top of your work area. With the text tool chosen, make sure you don't have anything on the page selected, and click on the button shown here deactivate it.

Office 2013 RTM: STILL no true small caps: WHY? WHY? WHY?

I have just un-installed the Office 2013 Preview, and installed the Office 2013 RTM 60-day trial.
I had hoped that between the two versions, the issue of missing true small caps in Word had been addressed. But no. Whilst Word 2013 supports OpenType ligatures and OpenType stylistic sets and OpenType old-style numbers and and and, it STILL DOES NOT SUPPORT
TRUE SMALL CAPS. Yes, it has a small caps function, but this just reduces the size of the font, instead of using the dedicated small caps letters included in a lot of OpenType fonts. What's the difference? The difference is that with true small caps, the stroke
width of upper case, lower case and small caps letters match, whereas in the cheapy, flimsy, yucky version that Office only offers, the small caps letters are thinner than the normal letters of that font - obviously so, as they are merely shrunken.
Try it for yourself. Type something like "AaMmXx" in an OpenType font with small caps, say, Calibri or Gabriola, at, say, 24pt, in Word 2013 and in Publisher 2013, and apply small caps in each, and print them. Compare the stroke widths. See what I mean?
Publisher does true small caps. Word doesn't.
So, why, Microsoft, why, oh why, oh why, when other typographical features (ligatures, stylistic sets, etc. etc. & so 4th) are supported in Word 2013, are small caps not? I just don't understand it. Why? Are small caps held to be something that only
professional typesetters should be allowed to use with typesetting programs like Publisher, whereas ordinary folk with Word shouldn't? Or is it trick to boost sales of Puiblisher? Or did no-one think about it? What is it? Because it's very annoying!

Well, in the second place, inserting characters via Insert Symbol is a pain in the posterior, and, of course, the spell checker doesn't recognise them. But in the first place, that only works if the font author has been thoughtful enough to give the small
caps glyphs Unicode code points, say, in the Private Use Area (like in Calluna). Normally, however, they don't - the small caps glyphs are only accessible via a small caps function, as lacking in Word. Excel is worse - apparently, Microsoft think that OpenType
advanced features ought not to be used in spreadsheets.
So having found fonts with small caps, the only way to use them is to use a font program either to assign the small caps glyphs to PUA code points, or to put them in a separate font (which at least means that other applications and spell checkers can use
them).

PDF printing incorrectly (unintentional cropping and scaling)

An 11x17 PDF prints correctly from 3 different computers in our office. It prints incorrectly from MY computer, as well as our client's computer in a different office. Although the PDF looks perfectly fine on the screen in Adobe Reader, the print scales itself to be larger (or smaller) than its supposed to be, causing unnecessary cropping (or extra white space) in the printed image.
The computers that are able to print it correctly sent the PDF to the same printer that my computer did. Also, at least 1 of these computers has the same version of Adobe Reader as mine (7.0), and was using the SAME EXACT print settings when sending it to the printer:
Choose paper source by PDF size was checked.
Page Scaling was set to None.
I do not know the Reader version or settings of my client's computer.
I do not know if this matters, but the PDF was created through AutoCAD using an Adobe plotter that creates a PDF of the layout/paperspace.
What can possibly account for the radical differences in prints from the SAME PDF?

...saved it as a PDF and when I print it out...
Are you printing from Illustrator or Acrobat (or Reader)?
I have checked all settings in the original file, the PDF and in the print properties for my printer and made sure that anything referring to automatic scaling is turned off.
What about in the print dialog in Reader or Acrobat (if that's what you're printing from)? Have you selected any page scaling options, like Fit to Printable Area or Shrink to Printable Area?

Simulated helvetica small caps not displayed acceptably in PDF

It's a never ending battle, this trying to get some sense out of computers. In a post earlier this year (http://forums.adobe.com/message/1287805#12878) I asked how to overcome the lack of proper small caps in Helvetica. Sandee came back with a suggestion, which I followed up, and it seemed to give reasonable results. And within InDesign, and when printed, it works.
However, when I export to PDF the small caps are not shown correctly on the screen. (The PDF file can be downloaded from http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nmjlhmiwt3i). They look a mess unless you zoom in about 500%. They print okay, but I'm not having a messy looking PDF sent to the printer. It's nothing but offputting.
If that was the only difficulty I could probably accept it, but I intend making my two books freely available for download in PDF form and I certainly don't want rubbish-looking fonts on display.
It looks like my mock small caps may have to be replaced with caps.
QUES 1
Is it possible to make my mock small caps display acceptably on the screen within a PDF? I have tried exporting to PDF at various resolutions, and with optimize for web turned on and off, but that makes no difference.
QUES 2
Another option is to get hold of a Helvetica font (or similar) that does have small caps. Where could I get hold of one of those?
The original InDesign file from which the PDF was obtained, can be downloaded from http://www.mediafire.com/?zddtj5m5d3q in case anyone wants to play around.

Thanks for the responses. I'm surprised the PDF looked okay, so I've emailed it to half a dozen people to see how it looks on their system. Maybe it's my screen or my Adobe Reader that's at fault.
I have attached two screen captures of what it look like on my screen. One at 100%, the other at 200%.
I'd like to continue using Helvetica because it's the one I've used in about 200 sidebars. If I change fonts, I imagine I could be days cleaning up the text oversets or undersets. I did think of changing fonts, and looked at all the sans serifs on my system, including the Open Type ones, but none had small caps. And buying an expert set: I could spend the next two days trying to sort out where to buy one of those and whether it actually contain small caps. Plus, I can't justify a price in excess of $100 for the sake of 400 words.

Acrobat Pro 9.4.6 Printing Strange Characters

I currently use Acrobat Pro 9.4.6 and when printing to a PDF file it prints strange characters...not at all what I want to be printed. I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium. Have others experienced this? Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Jim

Thanks for taking the time to reply. It's interesting that this problem only manifests itself in certain applications. A friend installed a program called CuteWriterPDF and the applications that I was having difficulty with writing PDF files are taken care of perfectly with this small program. It was just an experiment but it worked. This is not a perfect fix as I would prefer a solution from Adobe but at least I'm back up and running.
Thanks much for taking the time to reply!

Small caps - is there a way to change size ratio of lower to upper case?

I am using Adobe InDesign CS4 and one problem I've had is that when I select Small Caps on the character styles panel, lower case characters are about 60% the size of upper case characters. I'd like this to be more around 80% in my document.
I don't see a way to do this, so I'm having to avoid using Small Caps and am having to select various portions of each word and set them to different sizes.
Is there a setting I am missing for Small Caps that would save me this trouble? My typeface is Minion so I may also see if there's a variant available that uses well-crafted small caps.
Tim

Dave,
>.. adjust the size of the "lowercase" characters by using a GREP style
Yes ... and no.
It doesn't have to be an extremely complicated GREP style. You mention Unicode ranges, but it's not even necessary. You could try
>[a-z]
to select all lowercase characters, but it leaves out accented ones. Now specifying ranges for these doesn't work very good (to put it mildly), because they do not appear consecutively in the Unicode set.
Fortunately, GREP has a wildcard
>\l
for "lowercase", and this matches
i every
lowercase character (even Greek and Russian ones). It's equal to the POSIX expression
>[[:lower:]]
As this seems to work just the way you want, then why the "No"? The GREP style will be applied to
i all
lowercase characters in the paragraph, not just to the words you wanted.
[Warning: Dirty trick follows. Do Not Copy Unless Forced To.]
Of course you can
i force
the GREP style pick up 'unique' words by making them unique somehow. If you insert an invisible character
i before
and
i after
the words you want to mark -- in the case at hand, the ones you want to small-capitalize --, you can include the invisible characters in the GREP style. For example, by specifying
>~-\l+~-
you can "mark" words by inserting a soft hyphen before and after certain words. (This example also presumes only lowercase characters inbetween.) You don't have to use the soft hyphen, there are a couple more markers you could (ab)use. I think I'll leave it up to your imagination to wonder where it could possibly go wrong.

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

Is there a technique in FW to simulate or create a small caps style for a particular font?

I am using MS sans serif, helvetica and arial and I would like to have a small caps version of the font. Is there a way in FW to simulate
that effect?

Some free fonts are better quality than others, so when you set text in them check that the letters kern properly. (For example, does the o tuck under the cross of the T in To?) Given that a Web site is the face of your business, there's nothing wrong with investing in a good, high-quality typeface. Prices range anywhere from $20-$50 for single, simpler faces to $100-$200 for sets or more complex faces. (I'm in love with http://www.veer.com/products/typedetail.aspx?image=FOT0000074, but just can't figure out what to do with it. If I win the lottery, though, it's mine! When I redo my own Web site, I plan on using http://www.veer.com/products/typedetail.aspx?image=UMT0000431. Both fonts have alternate characters. Fireworks can't access them, but Illustrator can.)
As for mouseovers, most people go for color changes in some form or other, either the color of the button text or background, or adding a glow around the text.
If you want to browse around for inspiration, have a look at DesignMeltdown: http://www.designmeltdown.com/
I also try to read Smashing Magazine regularly, lots of great info there: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
If you're going to redesign, I would suggest not using a monochromatic color scheme. While it's very thematic, it's also very calming and relaxing. I think raising some excitement for your work in your potential customer's minds would be a good idea. For exploring color themes, I like these two:
Color Scheme Designer: http://colorschemedesigner.com/
Kuler: http://kuler.adobe.com/
I prefer Color Scheme Designer because I don't have to log in to save a color scheme. I just save the URL. Kuler has lots and lots of user-submitted presets, though, and I'm pretty sure there's a Kuler extension for Fireworks.

Small Caps Problem

I use Helvetica Neue, and have for the last 4 years. Recently, whenever I change lower case type to small caps, funky looking characters show up. If I export to a PDF, the small caps are fine. What's happening?

Can you give us a screencap with an example?

Where are Adobe Garamond Pro small caps?

I have Adobe Garamond Pro installed on my Mac which is said to include small caps and old style figures but they do not show up in the font menu option. I also have the older Adobe Garamond package which includes all experts characters and small caps / old style figures etc. These options show up as expected in the font option menu. So what's the deal with Garamond Pro?
The reason I need Garamond pro is it's Open Type which is the format I need (outside Illustrator).

Answer: Found the character option menu where the small caps are hidden.

No Small Caps in TextEdit

I've been googling for a while, and I can't figure out how to apply a small-caps effect to the title at the top of my document. i have it in rich text format.
i even tried Bean, and it uses the OS X font picker in which there is no small caps option. Is there some way to enable small caps in Mac OS X 10.5.8?

I assume that you licensed this font directly from Adobe's website. If you look at the listing for ITC Mendoza on Adobe's web site at <http://store1.adobe.com/cfusion/store/html/index.cfm?store=OLS-US&event=displayFontPackage &code=1073>, you will see that it is very explicit in terms of what characters are included. It does not include small caps, old style figures, etc. If you licensed the font by calling Adobe, you obviously should have asked first.
The version available on fonts.com is a newer version of the ITC Mendoza for which additional glyphs were added including small caps and old style figures. That version of the font has not been made available to Adobe to license.
You claim that “customer support is not available, I see, for this nor are returns.” Did you actually try calling Adobe? You should contact Adobe Customer Support (not Technical Support), indicate that you mistakenly purchased a license for this font (make sure you have all the information about the transaction from when you licensed the font) and that you would like to return the purchase for a refund since the font doesn't have the character set you need.
- Dov

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http://indesignsecrets.com/automating-small-cap-acronyms.php
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