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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Quick tips. Don't use obfuscating, it will make life only more complex.
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I'm not sure there is a way to turn off font obfuscation in InDesign. Which is why embedding fonts with ID seems to be a pain. Without going into the whole "you shouldn't embed fonts anyway" argument, obfuscation might be legally required by the font license.
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Originally Posted by iain robinson
when I change it to the Adobe method and resave the file it crashes Sigil when trying to reopen it(!), the fonts still don't work in iBooks (and no longer works in ADE (2.0.6XXX))
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Sorry you're experiencing that trouble, but I can't recreate it on my system. I can open the epub with Sigil; change (each and every) font to the Adobe obfuscation scheme, and save the epub with no crash.
Clearly it's not going to be very helpful to you until you figure out why Sigil is crashing, but the process does allow the embedded fonts to work as expected in ADE 2.0.
As Toxaris mentioned, embedded fonts don't work on iBooks
at all (obfuscated or un-), without that special xml file being added to the meta-inf folder. That's not ID specific. Everybody has to find their own way to get that file in there if they're not using iAuthor. I have no idea what obfuscation schemes iBooks supports though, if any.
EDIT: even if the original InDesign-produced ePub worked in ADE 2.0 as expected, the IDPF font obfuscation scheme won't work in the older version of ADE or the older Adobe RMSDK which is used by the vast majority of the portable devices/apps out there.