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Small Caps without Legacy Titler

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May 26, 2017
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I've been searching for a while and can't seem to find the answer. How do I enable "small caps" without the Legacy Titler. It's not under "Essential Graphics" or "Effects Controls" and nothing happens when I select the Titles workspace tab at the top of the screen. Help!

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Correct answer Stan Jones

When this thread started (PR 2017), the faux Small Caps was not in the graphics panel. The group of faux effects with small caps in your screenshot appear to have been added with 2018 or at some dot version. they are not in 2017.1.4 and are in 2018.1.2.

Thanks for pointing this out. Maybe the feature request here did the trick, lol!

Glen Tubbesing

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Why make a feature request when the feature is already available! I'm amazed that after a year and a half, no one has provided the truly correct answer to this problem. djamplifide, you were very close with message #4 above. First, select your text in the Program window using the Text tool. Then, in the Essential Graphics panel, click on Edit at the top, then look down in the Text Control section at the bottom of the panel. Then, just click on the Small Caps tool and Voila, you have Small Caps! Here's a screen grab of the necessary button to click.

Glen

Stan Jones

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When this thread started (PR 2017), the faux Small Caps was not in the graphics panel. The group of faux effects with small caps in your screenshot appear to have been added with 2018 or at some dot version. they are not in 2017.1.4 and are in 2018.1.2.

Thanks for pointing this out. Maybe the feature request here did the trick, lol!

AmitKukreja

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Mr. Jones

You are right. This feature is not available in Adobe Premier CC 2017.

Kevin-Monahan

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Hi djamplifide,

You can make a feature request for that here. If you need this kind of title, you can use the Legacy Titler.

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio

djamplifideAuthor

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Thanks buddy.

djamplifideAuthor

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No, it's actually an option in many of the Adobe Apps. Illustrator for example has the option right under all the other options. It used to be an option in the Legacy Title tool, but i'm trying to figure out how to toggle it in the new updated PrPro.

It's the button that's toggled in this Illustrator screen shot:

jstrawn

Legend

Small Caps, as well as the other style controls you see in AI, Ae and other apps, are referred to as Faux styles. They are not a Font-specific option, they are a programmatic shortcut for making all cap text look like that. Aside from using the Legacy Titler, you could also create a Graphics Text Layer with all caps, size up the font for the first big cap letter you want, and then copy/paste that value to the other characters that need it. (perhaps adjusting kerning for certain cases as needed) Of course, if you need a whole manuscript in a faux style like that, it will take way too long that way, but fortunately it's usually only something you'd do for a main Title or Header, which should be fairly manageable by hand. Once you've done that once, consider exporting it as a mogrt and then using that for future instances and just swapping out characters as needed.

Beyond that, Kevin is right. It can be be submitted as a feature request. That's a good thing to do even when it's something that we already know about, because it helps us gauge how large the overall demand for a certain feature may be.

paulh72938705

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Hi,

Just reading your response now, and I had a question: why the discrepancy in how Adobe treats text from app to app? AE, Premiere, ID, Illustrator: they all have different interfaces and features - not to mention limitations - in regards to treating text. This, I don't understand. Why wouldn't they all be similar, since they're all part of the same family of apps? The small caps, for example, should be a staple of text treatment in Premiere since we can easily do this in AE etc.

Thanks

Paul