Exporting Reflowable Epub - encryption

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September 1, 2021
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Hi,

I am trying to export a reflowable epub from InDesign (CC2019).

When I upload it onto Draft2Digital's website it warned that it was encrypted. I contacted them and they sent me the following pic of the export options. There is a security tab. When I export the epub that security tab does not appear (see pics below). Oddly enough, few, if any, of the options are shared, so I don't know how he's exporting the file.

How can I export an non-encrypted epub file?

Any help would be appreciated. It has to be reflowable, I don't want a fixed epub.

Thanks.

Mark

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New Participant

Actually, it is simplier than this. Instead, on the export options screen, uncheck embed fonts when outputting epub for draft2digital files (it’s located on the html & CSS options page - 5th down)

James Gifford—NitroPress

Brainiac

Yes, I gave that advice in this thread and am adamantly against embedding fonts in reflowable EPUB for many reasons, technical and esthetic. Not embedding fonts reduces file sizes and completely bypasses technical/validation problems like the one in this older thread. Embedding fonts means... some users can choose a slightly different view, if they even know it's there.

But there's always a faction who will lie awake nights if their book isn't being read in Copperplate Gothic or such. 🙂

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New Participant

I had the same thing happen today. Did you figure it out? I have no security tab either. I wonder if this is new. It says it only affect Scribd.

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Tanvir_Art

Known Participant

I am facing same problem please help...

James Gifford—NitroPress

Brainiac

InDesign still does not encrypt EPUBs, by default or by option.

You may be seeing a validation bug from the current release, which made a number of "boilerplate" changes to how it writes EPUB files. (The first issue encountered was its inclusion of language tags in every line, something that should have been benign and is ignored by many EPUB portals, but caused errors on some publisher sites.)

A fix for that problem is in the current prerelease version and should be pushed out generally in the near future. You may have no option but to wait for it to see if it does not trigger this false encryption warning.

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Brainiac

For what it's worth, the first picture seems to be from the export options for PDF, not the export options for EPUB.

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Fun SeekerAuthor

Inspiring

That probably explains why the export windows are so different. Thanks for pointing that out. The bigger problem is determining if Adobe is encrypting the reflowable epub on export and if/how I can prevent that from happening.