#How to add fonts to indesign full#
fontfilename.otf is the full file name including the path relative to the content.opf file (i.e.So anywhere between the and tags, insert the following line for each font file in your epub: The order of the items in the manifest doesn’t matter. After the list of items in the manifest, the list is closed with a tag. Open the content.opf file (in a text/code editor like TextPad or gedit).If you add font files to the epub, you need to add them to the manifest. This list is kept in a simple XML format in the content.opf file. They do this by reading the manifest, a list of everything in the epub package. “fonts/LinLibertine_Re-4.1.8.ttf” is not the same as “Fonts/LinLibertine_Re-4.1.8.ttf”).Įpub reading systems need to know exactly what is in the epub package. “Fonts”), note the file names including the folder name, taking care to copy any capitalisation (e.g. If they’re in a folder inside OEBPS (e.g. copy the file names into a Notepad text document for now).
We recommend putting them in a “fonts” folder in OEBPS, just to keep things neatly organised. If there are no font files there yet, copy the font files your epub needs (all variants, such as regular, bold, italic and bold-italic) to the OEBPS folder.They should be in the OEBPS folder, sometimes in their own “fonts” folder. at export in InDesign), find the files of the embedded fonts. If the fonts were embedded when the epub was created (e.g.InDesign probably put an “encryption” file in the META-INF folder.If you’re going with (1), ignore the rest of this section on fonts. replace InDesign’s embedded fonts with original font files, and remove the encryption (recommended).leave the mangled font files and encryption in place, but risk the epub file not validating ( not recommended but necessary if you’ve used proprietary fonts), OR.If you had InDesign embed fonts on export to epub, InDesign would have included encrypted (“mangled”) font files in the OEBPS folder. list the fonts in the epub’s manifest (in the content.opf file).include the font files in the OEBPS folder.To embed fonts, we have to do three things: It’s up to you, but if you do wants to include fonts, here’s a way to do this. But many publishers and designers want to offer a better design preference than the default fonts in most ereading systems, even if many systems or users override those fonts in the final display. They are inconsistently applied by ereading systems, and they make the epub file a lot bigger (a font is often around 250K per variant, e.g. Some epub experts recommend not including fonts in an epub package. Add fonts to the package, manifest and CSS