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• • May 26, 2014 at 6:54 am #68642
    John Greenwood

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    Hi all, just joined up today, looking forward to getting involved with this fantastic resource!

    I have a query I hope someone can clear up for me. I’ve just starting to put together a simple EPUB for the first time.

    I’m exporting and checking as I go along. When I open my EPUB in Digital Editions it all looks as it should do. However, when I export the EPUB automatically opens in iBooks where it looks different – all the fonts have defaulted to Times New Roman (I think).

    The font in question is Voltiare which i’m using for some headings and page titles.

    I’m thinking that maybe at some point i’ll have to embed this fonts so that all readers see the same thing?

    Hope that makes sense.

    Cheers

  • May 27, 2014 at 11:33 am #68677
    Steve Whittaker

    Member

    Hi John

    being a novice myself john, but i have read somewhere that open type fonts are really the way to go. Is Voltiare Otf? You should not have to embed it

  • May 27, 2014 at 11:40 am #68678
    John Greenwood

    Member

    Hi Steve, thanks for your reply.

    Yes it is, it’s from Googles fonts, I was careful choosing it so that this problem wouldn’t happen.

    It’s strange that it is fine in Digital Editions but not in iBooks.

    Does anyone else come across this? Sorry if this is a numb newbie question.

  • May 27, 2014 at 9:31 pm #68680
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hi John,

    Which version of InDesign are you using? Also, are you embedding fonts while exporting?

    Regards,
    Pooja

  • May 28, 2014 at 6:35 am #68686
    John Greenwood

    Member

    Hi Pooja,
    I’m currently using CS6. I’ve selected the option which asked to include embedible fonts.

    Thanks

  • May 28, 2014 at 7:48 pm #68689
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hi John,

    There was a bug in CS6 about font embedding not working on iBooks, we had fixed that bug in CC release.

    Regards,
    Pooja

  • May 29, 2014 at 12:24 am #68693
    John Greenwood

    Member

    Ah, excellent, thanks very much Pooja!

    When I upgrade, can I use the same file in CC or am I going to have to start again with a new CC document to fix the bug?

    Many thanks.

  • May 29, 2014 at 10:45 pm #68723
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hi John,

    You can use the same file in CC, there should not be any issue working with the same file.

    Regards,
    Pooja

  • May 30, 2014 at 1:51 am #68724
    John Greenwood

    Member

    Excellent, thank you all for helping me. It’s a steep learning curve! Looks like i’ll be upgrading in the near future!

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