I was trying to put some emoji characters in a PDF, and started by trying to load an emoji font.
use strict;
use warnings;
use PDF::API2;
my $pdf = PDF::API2->new();
my $page = $pdf->page();
my $text = $page->text();
# the font was downloaded from
# https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/raw/main/fonts/NotoColorEmoji.ttf
my $font = $pdf->font('NotoColorEmoji.ttf');
$text->font( $font, 24 );
$text->position( 72, 720 );
$text->text('Hello world');
$pdf->save('sample.pdf');
The script fails while loading the font:
Can't call method "read" on an undefined value at /usr/share/perl5/PDF/API2/Resource/CIDFont/TrueType/FontFile.pm line 556.
I expect putting some Unicode Emoji character in a PDF file is bit more complicated than doing $text->text("♥") with the appropriate font. This is failing when loading the font, however.
Hi,
I was trying to put some emoji characters in a PDF, and started by trying to load an emoji font.
The script fails while loading the font:
I expect putting some Unicode Emoji character in a PDF file is bit more complicated than doing
$text->text("♥")with the appropriate font. This is failing when loading the font, however.Regards,