There are no bold small caps in AGaramond, if you want that, you should use \bfdefault=sb, so fontinst fakes bold small caps by reducing true caps from the bold fonts. To know if subsetting is the cause of your pbs, simply try dvips -j0 and compare. No clue for the rest. Thierry Bouche, Grenoble. __ « Ils vivent pour vivre, et nous, hélas ! nous vivons pour savoir. » Charles Baudelaire, Paris.