“You shall not pass!” [drop_cap]A[/drop_cap]dobe isn’t exactly a beloved company these days. People begrudgingly use their stuff, because the Creative Suite is an industry standard (read: monopoly) or there are simply no worthwhile alternatives, not because anyone is genuinely excited about these tools. I’m happy to report that I (mostly) make do without Adobeware these days (shoutout to Photopea), and yet, my disdain of Adobe just reached a completely new level. Let me explain. A while back I published a new book. As always I gave readers direct access to DRM-free EPUB files, which go through a gauntlet of processes until they pass all epubcheck … err … checks. If you’re not familiar with epubcheck , it is basically the gold standard for well-formed ebooks. It can be very annoying at first, because it’s more pedantic than a nun on Ash Wednesday. If your manifest doesn’t meticulously account for every snippet and image in your book, your epub shall not pass.…