I don't have an iPad, so I've had to rely on others, who have reported that embedded fonts are not supported in ePub on the iPad.
If your ePub contains otf or ttf fonts and the iPad does display them that's very interesting.
Has anyone else got direct experience with ePubs, embedded fonts and the iPad?
The only way to tell if you're using a font within its licence is to read the licence and see what it says. If it is unclear, you'll need to ask the font foundry.
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Originally Posted by Sadhu
I am confused by your comments because when creating a PDF and then converting with Calibre to ePub, the extended character set of Tahoma shows up in the ePub document on the iPad. That by any other name is embedding in my book, because the extended characters are not supported by the default fonts on the iPad, and yet show up in my ePub on the iPad when I'm done converting the documents.
The big question is legality. For example, I don't know if by going through these steps the Tahoma font is encrypted to the point where it will not violate the font license agreement, because Ascender (the company which distributes the font) does not permit distribution for commercial purposes, and eBooks are considered commercial as far as they are concerned.
Does the font get encrypted enough to meet the legal requirements for distribution? If not, is there is something else that I one can do to make it encrypted (enough) to be a legal document (for sale in the iBookstore)?
I would appreciate some direction in finding enough to read on this subject so that I don't get sued and lose everything including the kitchen sink. Is there a good resource on the web that someone can point me to ...that is understandable for the average writer ?? (I am a writer, but not a technical writer and, therefore, I need something that is written in such a way that it can be understood by non-programmers).
Thanks (in advance).
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