Fonts in EPUB files

When I generate output as an eBook, the results do not use the correct fonts. I assume I need to embed the fonts somehow, but I have not been able to find a way to do this.
The font names are listed in the .css file, so I don't think that's the problem.
I'm using RoboHelp 10, and using EPUB3 as the eBook format.

Also, I wanted to mention: although embedding the font allowed paragraphs defined with the font to work properly in ibooks, character formatting using the same font did not work. I had to also perform the following to make the character formatting work. I think this is in an issue in ibooks only. It worked nicely on an Android device. I wanted to add this information in case it is helpful for others:
1. Create a file named: com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml, which includes the following lines:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<display_options>
<platform name="*">
<option name="specified-fonts">true</option>
</platform>
</display_options>
2. After creating your epub file, change the .epub file extension to .zip and unzip the file.
3. Copy the com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml file into the META-INF folder of the epub file structure.
4. Open the content.opf file and declare the com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml file, like so:
<item href="/META-INF/com.apple.ibooks.display-options.xml" id="caido" media-type="application/xhtml+xml"/>
5. Use a utility, such as ePubPack (it's free) to compress the files into an epub. You should use a utility, because simply rezipping the epub files and changing the extension back to epub may not work (some files in the epub need to remain uncompressed).
It would be nice if Robohelp did this automatically. Apparently InDesign does this automatically (that's what I read on a blog posting, but I can't confirm that since I don't use InDesign).
Message was edited by: SueC2009

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