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Originally Posted by Peter Sorotokin
Even though I do not totally agree with what you say, I can certainly see your point and confirm that there is a lot of truth in it. When you hit a specific problem that epubcheck should have caught in your opinion, could you make a note of it and either post this stuff somewhere, or send me a message, or create an issue for epubcheck? This way it can be improved to be a more useful tool.
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I was pleased to find that the latest 1.0.5 epubcheck no longer reportes problems on IDPF-obfuscated fonts. It still reports problems on Adobe-obfusticated fonts, which is reasonable, I suppose, because the Adobe method is non-standard.
Of course, (nearly) all ePub readers understand Adobe obfusticated fonts, and the most important one, Adobe Digital Editions, doesn't understand IDPF obfusticated ones. Which makes the situation less than optimal.
Sigh... I just want to publish an ePub with an embedded fton in a way that satifies the font vendors, and yet doesn't encrypt the text. An obfusticated font is the way to go, but using Adobe obfustication means the file won't pass epubcheck, and so my distributor won't take it, and using IDPF obfustication passes epubcheck, but then the font won't show up for the majority of (current) users!
Hopefully ADE will support IDPF obfusticated fonts soon.
(Hmm... I seem to be trying to hijack the thread. Apologies.)