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Old 04-21-2021, 06:33 PM   #50
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And what is it that the IT department does to them? The ePUBs? And what process are they using to get to the obfuscated fonts in the first place? INDD?
Everything starts life as an InDesign file and ends up as an enhanced epub, with read-aloud narration and highlighting, interactive popups, etc.

The IT department, near as I can tell, has draconian security measures in place that interfere with (among many other things not related to ebooks) the ability of the e-reading platform to correctly access obfuscated fonts, so the final step of every epub workflow is de-obfuscation.

The books are also not displayed as you'd expect; the covers, for instance, are served to the user by a content management system, so it probably doesn't even matter whether the epub files have covers in them.
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