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Originally Posted by mattmc
I'm watching Anne-Marie Concepcion's videos on EPUB creation with InDesign. In two different videos, she states that font embedding is not possible with EPUB2, only EPUB3.
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Maybe the tutorial was an older version of InDesign?
A quick search lead to this. According to:
http://www.pigsgourdsandwikis.com/20...ing-fonts.html
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One of the most appreciated improvements to InDesign with the new Creative Cloud edition is that it finally embeds fonts in a way that iBooks understands.
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The problem is that InDesign CS 6 doesn't do it right. Whether it's Adobe's fault or Apple's or the IDPF's, I've never been quite sure, but the truth is that there were two major problems: the font didn't get obfuscated properly and InDesign didn't account for iBooks' idiosyncracies (read: non-standard font requirements).
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Apple's com file is totally non-standard (that is, not part of the EPUB3 spec), but regardless, if you want fonts to work in iBooks with an EPUB 2 file, that's what you need, and I think Adobe made a great decision by including that file automatically so we don't have to crack open the EPUB to add it ourselves.
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So perhaps that tutorial you watched was conflating all of iBooks's bastardized EPUB with all of EPUB. Wouldn't be surprising since a lot of those InDesign people specifically design EPUBs for iBooks only... bleh.
or this older "What's new in InDesign CS5" document:
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Ado...n_cs5_epub.pdf
said this:
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Note: A number of eBook readers do not support embedded fonts, including the iBooks app on
the Apple iPad and the Amazon Kindle.
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So maybe older versions of InDesign just didn't insert the "com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml" that iBooks needs.