From the course: Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB

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Embedding fonts

Embedding fonts

From the course: Creating a Fixed-Layout EPUB

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Embedding fonts

Your fixed-layout EPUBs can have embedded fonts just like your PDFs can have embedded fonts; however, you can't just throw any font that you have into the EPUB font folder, because it all depends on the rights that the font foundry gives you, as far as embedding. Now when you export to PDF, InDesign and other programs will tear that font apart and embed just the subset of the letters, and there's no way that you can give that PDF to somebody else and they can extract the entire font to use. And Adobe InDesign tries to do that when you export to EPUB. If we export this to EPUB, and we, say, here under Contents, to include embeddable fonts, well, an embeddable font to Adobe is any font that can be embedded in a PDF. And so they will go ahead and embed encrypted versions of the fonts you used in this, and then there is an encryption file that goes along with it. And the problem that most EPUB designers have found is that it's a crapshoot whether or not iBooks will support it. It seems…

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