Embedding Adobe Fonts

[pickil11]

So I've had no problem embedding fonts into my epub, UNLESS they're Adobe fonts that I got with my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. I'm able to use these fonts in Word and they show up in Calibre, but when I go to do the final checks and embed them Calibre says it cant find them. I found that CC fonts are not installed in the font folder. I'm not sure if that's the reason. But its really depressing to design my cover with a specific font and then not being able to match the chapter titles to that font. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

[kovidgoyal]

Install the fonts in your system folder and calibre will pick them up automatically. Alternately open the edit book tool in calibre and click the manage fonts button there you can specify font files to install which will make them available to calibre.

[Tex2002ans]

Originally Posted by pickil11

So I've had no problem embedding fonts into my epub, UNLESS they're Adobe fonts that I got with my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription.

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But its really depressing to design my cover with a specific font and then not being able to match the chapter titles to that font. Does anyone know how I can fix this?

No. You cannot use Adobe Creative Cloud fonts in ebooks.

See Hitch's posts a few weeks ago:

• "ePub chinese fonts"

and a month before that:

• "Embedding Adobe Fonts into a Kindle title"

(Hitch runs Booknook.biz, one of the largest ebook conversion companies.)

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Side Note: You'll also want to read more details on font licensing + embedding fonts into ebooks.

(Most recently discussed in my Post #10 in the "ePub Chinese Fonts" thread.)

In order to legally embed into an ebook, you usually have to purchase a completely separate license (which typically costs >10x more than the font files themselves).

Originally Posted by pickil11

I found that CC fonts are not installed in the font folder. I'm not sure if that's the reason. [...] Does anyone know how I can fix this?

You'll have to download the non-cloud font files + install them to your computer.

OTF or TTF fonts are the acceptable filetype for EPUB.

Once they're actually installed locally, then Calibre + anything else should be able to embed them into your ebook fine.

But like I mentioned above, embedding these paid-for fonts, legally, is most likely preposterously expensive. (Which is why most publishers decide to not do it.)