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Originally Posted by Hitch
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.)
Hitch
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Yes, remove the encryption file, pull out the obfuscated fonts, drag in the non-obfuscated ones.
Ebook authors aren't part of this workflow at all; in traditional publishing houses, once the editing phase is over and production has begun, authors aren't allowed anywhere near anything at all. There's the odd exception, but it's very rare. 90% of what I do for this client is backlist, too, so the authors aren't anywhere in the picture anymore. It's straight conversion work.