Terminal emoji are not present in gifs
jdoss opened this issue · comments
At the moment agg can render b&w emojis with Noto Emoji font. If you install this font system-wide then it should find it and use it automatically. Alternatively, you can download the NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf file, put it in some directory, and pass --font-dir <path/to/that/dir>
option which will add this additional dir to agg's font lookup paths.
As for color emojis - agg uses fontdue library for text rendering and this lib doesn't yet support color fonts. See mooman219/fontdue#47 . Once fontdue adds support for it, e.g. for Noto Color Emoji as mentioned in that issue, we'll have it in agg.
I think it should also be possible to install a patched font like Nerd Fonts with embedded emojis, and use it by passing --font-family ...
option. I haven't tried it though.
I tested with Nerd Fonts but it turns out Nerd Fonts embed all the fancy stuff like Powerline symbols etc but they don't include unicode emojis. So b&w Noto Emoji font is our friend at the moment.
Closing given this works fine when Noto Emoji font is installed.
What am I doing wrong?
ls $HOME/Downloads/Noto_Emoji/static
NotoEmoji-Bold.ttf NotoEmoji-Light.ttf NotoEmoji-Medium.ttf NotoEmoji-Regular.ttf NotoEmoji-SemiBold.ttf
agg --font-family=NotoEmoji-Regular --font-dir=$HOME/Downloads/Noto_Emoji/static # omitting the rest
Error: no faces matching font family NotoEmoji-Regular
agg --version
agg 1.2.0
uname -a
Linux x22 5.15.58 #1-NixOS SMP Fri Jul 29 15:25:34 UTC 2022 x86_64 GNU/Linux
@gerhard Just remove --font-family=NotoEmoji-Regular
and use --font-dir=$HOME/Downloads/Noto_Emoji/static
only.
Works a treat, thank you!