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Originally Posted by cybmole
oh yes - very well explained, thanks.
when you say that some of the licensed fonts on my PC are encrypted, how come they still work in sigil / calibre book view i.e. what is doing the decrypting.
I could understand MS work having a secret decryption key, but not open source software, surely ?
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Cyb:
They work because you have the font on your computer. If you sent that file to a friend who did not have the font installed on his/her computer, s/he would not be able to see the embedded fonts.
It's like a PDF that's called, but not embedded, a font. It won't display the font utilized (e.g., the ubiquitous MS Calibri) on someone else's computer who uses, say, OO on a linux box--it'll display some default font instead, that IS on the recipient's computer.
Hitch