Thread: EPUB2 Font Embedding InDesign
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Old 06-23-2016, 01:34 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Tex2002ans View Post
So maybe older versions of InDesign just didn't insert the "com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml" that iBooks needs.
Adobe used a different font obfuscation technique than Apple for EPUB 2 books, so you couldn't embed obfuscated fonts in an EPUB 2 book and expect ADE and iBooks to both be able to read them.

EPUB 3 resolved that by providing a single obfuscation standard in the spec, and now everybody is on the same page. I'd imagine that's what she meant when she said that font embedding wasn't supported—specifically that font embedding of commercial fonts was dubious in EPUB 2.
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