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Originally Posted by noteon
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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So, what do you do? Re-embed the font faces used? That must get pricey, as 99%, they're using something like Adobe Fonts or Typekit or some cloud-based font subscription service....or perhaps not, since the recipient isn't, actually, receiving the file, but reading it through a window, instead? (Reading it in a browser, I mean). ???
Adobe and Typekit, Skyfonts, etc., are all well and good, but they are endlessly problematic in eBooks, they really are. Works perfectly for print, naturally--the PDF is the PDF is the PDF--but we all KNOW that eBook authors are never "finished" and if they decide to add some word like Xplgtė after the ePUB has exited the INDD export, you're screwed. (Or use some symbol from the font, or, or or. Whatever characters or glyphs have been removed due to subsetting.)
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