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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------