I picked up Scribus at the start of the year and have been working on a project that requires the use of emoji (they appear in submissions that I'm publishing in a sort of magazine). I have tried *several* emoji fonts but all of them that use colour consistently have issues. It appears that Scribus doesn't support SVG fonts, so I've tried fonts which use the COLRv0 and COLRv1 formats instead. COLRv1 seems to be pretty much totally non-functional, but with OpenMoji's COLRv0 version, I was able to get everything rendering properly in the editor window. However, when I export to pdf, none of the emojis appear at all. There is an invisible character though, which when copied and pasted into some other place with emoji support appears as some other characters and diacritics (I've had various combinations of Latin and Greek characters).
I'm using Scribus 1.6.3 on Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS. I have access to a Windows machine, could the OS or some interaction between Scribus and Ubuntu be the issue? Any help would be deeply appreciated!
i could not get neither to work.
would you mind submitting a sample .sla file and the font emoji files that do work and do not work for you to
https://bugs.scribus.net
?
Scribus does not support emojis or colour fonts yet. One for
@jghali in the future..
Does the PDF format support it? I would think in PDF the glyphs are drawn using postscript, using "strokes"?
yes, pdf seems to be supporting it:
👉🌈⚠️
i'm attaching the pdf output of this reply, created with firefox:
emoji.pdf
As far as I can see in Acrobat, the emojis are pictures and not glyphs.
Quote from: MrB on June 15, 2025, 03:12:19 PMScribus does not support emojis or colour fonts yet. One for @jghali in the future..
Ah I see. At least there aren't too many, I guess I'll just have to go back and replace them all with images once the text layout is final.