Re: Apple Emoji

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Apple Emoji
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 09:38:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E4CC178.1080700@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALBOmsZwE8_QTShm9+k6dQJN1t49dXAZFRg=+gKwrA_RjN+0xA@mail.gmail.com>

On 18-8-2011 12:15, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 18:17, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 05:29:43PM +0200, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
>>>
>>> I'd like to have "my" typesetting system to be capable of what users
>>> demands and not what I think is good for them.
>
> If you have a typesetting system, you can still extract all the PNG
> images out of the font and replace some unicode letters with
> corresponding \externalfigure[...]. You would probably violate the
> licence, but you would get the desired result :)

it's a route that i usually want to avoid (apart from the fact that 
fonts bound to platforms are a bad idea)

>> If one need multicolored fonts there is Type3 (if it is supported) or
>> just a virtual font with PDF specials.  AFAIK, emoji is used in Japan in
>> SMS and other chat-like stuff, not something luatex is used for (unless
>> someone is writing a chat client in luatex).
>
> The font has some nice images that could be used for whatever other
> reason, not just SMS.
>
> If you need to quickly find a picture of women with bunny ears for
> party invitation for example ...
>
> But joke aside. Even if you need a nice symbol set for horoscope in
> the magazine, the font (the symbols, actually) might be handy.

as we noticed when we looked into it a while ago, it is not even 
included as real font in pdf, such a thingie becomes an inline bitmap 
(or xform reference) with an invisible character on top (or below) which 
means that one can as well use png's directly ... it's only a font 
because that way the bunch get collected in one place

Hans

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