Thread: Help: epub font de-obfuscation
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Old 04-22-2021, 09:19 AM   #52
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Originally Posted by noteon View Post
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.
Do you actually need these embedded fonts? If it's just to look like the pBook version, then chances are you don't need them. If you don't need the embedded fonts, just remove them from the ePub.
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