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Small-caps randomly disappearing during export

Community Beginner ,
Jun 24, 2021 Jun 24, 2021

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Hi, 

I had a serious problem with Indesign export and I do not know how to solve it nor how to reproduce it, which makes it all the more worrisome.

The PDF file I exported and sent to my client has lost all the small-caps in Adobe Garamond Pro Italics font. They are present in the Indesign file, I do not have any font problem and when I redo the export, everything works just fine. How can this happen and how can I be sure that it won't happen again? 

(I am working in Indesign 2021 version 16.2.1, the problem appeared when I exported my indb file (it is a book of  7 indd files, making a total of about 800 pages).

Thank you very much for your help

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Community Expert ,
Jun 24, 2021 Jun 24, 2021

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  • What part of the text was in small caps? Was it Roman numerals for the century at the end of your text?
  • did you type it or used some glyphs?
  • can you indicate the steps you took to generate the content that was lost?
  • what standards did you use for your pdf export?

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 25, 2021 Jun 25, 2021

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Thank you very much for your response, Eric!

  • The text in small caps was indeed the Roman numerals for the century.
  • I imported it from word (no glyphs), and used the TT button in Indesign to make the small-caps.
  • I just made a HD export without any pdf standard.

When I retry to do the export with the same parameters, the small-caps are there. I don't understand what could have happened.

Thank you again for your help!

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Jun 25, 2021 Jun 25, 2021

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When you choose the small caps feature in an open type font, InDesign substitutes the glyph for the small cap version - rather than using the preferences for the small caps set in InDesign>Preferences.

 

On export to PDF it might be better to choose Create a Tagged PDF which might be an option to help PDF readers understand what glyph to display.

 

I wonder what PDF viewer it is missing in - are you both using Acrobat? Or another PDF reader, like Mac Preview or Foxit Reader etc. 

 

 

I've noticed a lot - especially with Word - that copying and pasting, importing or anything like that tends to have issues, I often have characters go completely missing, from hyphens, to spaces to a multitude of things. 

 

Check to make sure that no Microsoft styles came in - check your paragraph and character styles (especially character styles) to ensure that there are no rogue styles imported that could be causing issues. 

 

 

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Community Beginner ,
Jun 25, 2021 Jun 25, 2021

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Thank you for your response!

We both use Acrobat, yes.

Actually the issue is that neither of us could see the small-caps on one version (they just did not export), but they do export just fine now, I just want to be sure that it won't happen again.

I do not have any Word styles on these characters, I usually clear all the Word formatting. But we did do a lot of exporting due to multiple corrections asked by the client, and multiple people were working on the files.

Thank you very much and have a great day!

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Jun 24, 2021 Jun 24, 2021

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Here's something to try:

When exporting PDF, Export > Advanced > Subsetting Fonts Value: Set this to 0%

Note, this will include the entire character set and will create a larger file size PDF.

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