Dear Hussein,

Thank you for the answer, so as expected a font problem.

Best Regards,

Albert

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 12:04 PM Hussein Shafie <huss...@xmlmind.com> wrote:

> On 09/27/2018 11:16 AM, Albert wrote:
> >
> > I've been looking at the possibilities of emoji in output formats of
> > doxygen based on the list in
> > https://unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html. I made an
> > implementation in the output format of docbook as well. A limitation is
> > always which UTF codes are supported. In xmlMind it looks quite good
> > already and also in the HTML and RTF output from xmlmind (all depending
> > on the fonts present / support from it). When converting to to pdf
> > nearly all symbols are replaced by a '#' as they are not supported.
> >
> > How can I get the emoji into the pdf?
> >
>
> By default, PDF uses its 14 built-in fonts: Times, Helvetica, Courier,
> Symbol and ZapfDingbats. These fonts have glyphs only for the western
> (AKA Latin1) languages.
>
> --> Therefore you need to substitute to these built-in fonts some
> "modern fonts" having much more glyphs, including glyphs for emojis.
>
> These "modern fonts" must be installed (normally, using the facilities
> provided by operating system) on your computer.
>
> Sorry but I have no "modern font" names to suggest.
>
> After that, the font substitution can be done once for all, quite
> easily, from within XMLmind XML Editor. See for example: "Procedure 9.2.
> How to choose specific fonts (for example, you want to replace Times
> fonts by Georgia fonts)" in "7.12.1. Apache FOP options",
>
> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/addonOptions.html#fopOptions
>
>
>
>
> ---
> PS: Your question is somewhat related to this FAQ:
> ---
> When I convert documents written in Russian (or Polish or Czech or any
> non-western language) to PDF, almost all characters are replaced by the
> "#" character. Is there a workaround for this problem?
> ---
> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/faq.html#html_charset
>
>
>
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