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Monaghan · 10-05-2021, 05:56 AM

I'm looking to embed a font from Adobe Fonts into a title which will be sold on Kindle. The font's licence allows for EPUB embedding.

Upon creating the file, the custom font shows up correctly in Adobe Digital Editions and Sigil, but not in Kindle Previewer 3 or the KDP online previewer.

It only appears correctly in Kindle Previewer 3 when font obfuscation is turned off from within Sigil, which would presumably break the licence agreement for the font. I have tried both "IDPF's Method" and "Adobe's Method" of obfuscation with the same result.

I am hopefully missing something blindingly obvious here! My experience with embedding fonts into EPUBs thus far has been with freely available fonts that do not need to be encrypted, so I have not encountered this issue before. Any and all advice very welcome.

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Edit: Perhaps these fonts should be subset instead of obfuscated?

10-05-2021, 05:56 AM	#1
Monaghan Enthusiast Posts: 30 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2012 Device: none	Embedding Adobe Fonts into a Kindle title I'm looking to embed a font from Adobe Fonts into a title which will be sold on Kindle. The font's licence allows for EPUB embedding. Upon creating the file, the custom font shows up correctly in Adobe Digital Editions and Sigil, but not in Kindle Previewer 3 or the KDP online previewer. It only appears correctly in Kindle Previewer 3 when font obfuscation is turned off from within Sigil, which would presumably break the licence agreement for the font. I have tried both "IDPF's Method" and "Adobe's Method" of obfuscation with the same result. I am hopefully missing something blindingly obvious here! My experience with embedding fonts into EPUBs thus far has been with freely available fonts that do not need to be encrypted, so I have not encountered this issue before. Any and all advice very welcome. - Edit: Perhaps these fonts should be subset instead of obfuscated? Last edited by Monaghan; 10-05-2021 at 05:58 AM.