iOS Emoji keyboard does not print to PDF?!

William de Smet williamdesmet at gmail.com
Mon Oct 26 05:13:10 EDT 2020


Thanks for answering Scott!
Not a big issue for me at the moment.

Greetings,

William


Op ma 26 okt. 2020 om 03:57 schreef scott--- via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:

> I think that emojis not rendering to PDF has been a longstanding issue…
> and I thought that I had filed a bug report on this but looking at
> bugzilla, I failed to find it. (sigh). I have code in two of my apps that
> alert the user, should PDF creation fail, that they should remove emojis
> from their text.  I have on my to-do list a workaround project that would
> use imageSource to substitute for known emoji codes. So, while none of this
> is of any help, I feel your pain :- )
>
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> > On Oct 25, 2020, at 2:34 PM, William de Smet via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Richmond,
> >
> > That’s the short version of the code.
> > Like I said it works fine as long as it is text only. When an Emoji from
> the iOS keyboard is added the Emoji is not printed in the PDF.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> Op 25 okt. 2020 om 21:13 heeft Richmond via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> het volgende geschreven:
> >>
> >> " 'export snapshot' to PDF as PNG" sounds a bit odd.
> >>
> >>> On 25.10.20 21:47, William de Smet via use-livecode wrote:
> >>> Hi there,
> >>>
> >>> A simple iOS app in which the user chooses the iOS keyboard to add
> text and
> >>> an Emoji to a standard LC text field.
> >>> I use 'export snapshot' to PDF as PNG to print to PDF.
> >>> When there is only text in the field all text is printed to the PDF but
> >>> when an Emoji is added the Emoji is not printed to the PDF.
> >>> Am I missing something?
> >>> Do I need to add some code?
> >>>
> >>> iOS 13
> >>> LC 9,6,1 Indy
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> greetings,
> >>>
> >>> William
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