How to use DejaVuSans Font with color emoji

[simkessy]

It's not clear to me how we're supposed to get emojis in the PDF.

For example. I have DejaVuSans has my font and emojis are just rendering using that instead of the colored emojis from TwitterEmoji.ttf.

Is that expected?

For example this is my setup:

            fpdf.add_font('TwitterEmoji', '', 'TwitterColorEmoji-SVGinOT.ttf')
            fpdf.add_font('OpenMoji', '', 'OpenMoji-color-colr1_svg.ttf')
            fpdf.add_font('DejaVuSans', '', 'DejaVuSans.ttf')
            fpdf.set_fallback_fonts(['TwitterEmoji', 'OpenMoji'])

When I try to render text with emojis, I just get the ones from DejaVuSans or Roboto and not the fallbacks.

[Lucas-C]

Hi @simkessy! 🙂

I checked you have read our documentation page about emojis?
https://py-pdf.github.io/fpdf2/EmojisSymbolsDingbats.html

I'm a bit in a hurry right now, but I'll try to test your code asap 🙂

[simkessy]

Hey @Lucas-C I have but yea I can't figure out how or if it's possible to have both a font for text and one for emojis in color

I don't think the examples in the docs cover this and when I use a unicode font, like roboto or devajusans, it just uses the black and white version of those fonts and not the fallback with the emoji in color

[Lucas-C]

I don't think the examples in the docs cover this and when I use a unicode font, like roboto or devajusans, it just uses the black and white version of those fonts and not the fallback with the emoji in color.

👍
Yeah, we should definitely add a mention about this in our documentation on this page 🙂

I'm testing your code now...

Reference links for the fonts:

• https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji/blob/master/font/OpenMoji-color-colr1_svg/OpenMoji-color-colr1_svg.ttf
• https://github.com/13rac1/twemoji-color-font/releases/download/v15.1.0/TwitterColorEmoji-SVGinOT-15.1.0.zip

[Lucas-C]

Oh, I just realized: we do not support color emojis yet!
cf. #224

However @andersonhc, another maintainer of fpdf2, is currently working on this 🙂
cf. #1305

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For reference, a minimal autonomous test script for testing:

from fpdf import FPDF

pdf = FPDF()
pdf.add_page()
pdf.add_font(fname="fonts/DejaVuSans.ttf")
pdf.add_font(fname="OpenMoji-color-colr1_svg.ttf")
pdf.add_font(fname="TwitterColorEmoji-SVGinOT.ttf")
pdf.set_font("DejaVuSans", size=14)
pdf.set_fallback_fonts(["TwitterColorEmoji-SVGinOT", "OpenMoji-color-colr1_svg"])
pdf.multi_cell(0, text="".join([chr(0x1F600 + x) for x in range(68)]))
pdf.write(text="text with an emoji 🌭")
pdf.output("issue_1341.pdf")

[Lucas-C]

For now, I suggest to add a warning about this in our documentation:
#1342

@simkessy: do you have any question regarding this?
Else I'll close this issue, and we can track the subject of the color emojis in #224 🙂

[simkessy]

No questions, now that know it's not supported I can move on. Thanks for the quick response