Description: The latest version of the OpenType specification introduced few tables that allow for having multi-colored glyphs. The simplest of them is COLR/CPAL (https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/colr.htm, https://www.microsoft.com/typography/otspec/cpal.htm) which uses layers of normal glyphs and color palettes to assign colors to each. It shouldn’s be hard to parse the tables in SalGraphics::DrawTextLayout() and draw each layer glyph with its assigned color. We might want to wait until HarfBuzz supports these fonts to avoid parsing the tables on our own. This would allow supporting fonts like Amiri Quran Colored or several of the new Emoji fonts cross-platform (Windows 8.1+ already supports this format, though I don’t think we make use of that support). Steps to Reproduce: Try using Amiri Quran Colored font with Arabic text. Actual Results: Text comes out using the foreground color. Expected Results: Text should use the colors defined in the font. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Additional Info: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:50.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/50.0
We can expect this pull request will be merged to get support for CPAL table. https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz/pull/244
We can also explore how Firefox implemented.
*** Bug 115848 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
HarfBuzz received the following pull request recently: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/pull/841
The above request add support for CPAL table. Now HarfBuzz received the following pull request for COLR table: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/pull/847
They has an issue for discussing the API, so we can track it to see the results. https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/849
It’s coming in HB 1.7.6.
Althrough HarfBuzz added support in version 1.7.6, there is no APIs published to use them. So we should waitimg for new release, or giving a hand to fix it soon.
This feature is already available in HarfBuzz since 2.1.0.
What's the status with this? How difficult would it be to support this now that it is supported by HarfBuzz?
(In reply to Aleksandr Andreev from comment #10) > What's the status with this? How difficult would it be to support this now > that it is supported by HarfBuzz? For screen rendering they should already supported on Linux if you have FreeType 2.10.x and Cairo 1.16.x, and should be supported on recent enough macOS systems (disdn’t test that, though). On Windows it would require calling the relevant DirectWrite APIs (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/directwrite/color-fonts#using-color-fonts-with-directwrite-and-direct2d) For PDF, we would need to call HarfBuzz to decompose the color glyph layers before writing them to the PDF, should be a couple of days work or so if someone is interested.
If someone is interested in taking up this issue, please contact me. I am willing to offer a bounty for the resolution of this issue.
I confirm I cannot print or pdf-export documents with emojis today: Libreoffice 6.4.7.2 40(Build:2) Emojis: fonts-noto-color-emoji Now following this important bug. (coming from https://askubuntu.com/questions/1279100/emoji-disappear-when-i-print-export-to-pdf-or-download-a-pdf-after-update-to-2)
Isn't this a duplicate of #129523? *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 129523 ***
This is not a duplicate, different color font technologies need totally different handling. Each needs a separate tracking bug.
Khaled Hosny committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/bf41b120b7690bb6976daa7aa317b5f3b9f5b19c vcl: tdf#104403 PDF export for layered color fonts It will be available in 7.5.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
The PDF export is handled with the above commit, on screen rendering is handled by the respective graphics libraries on each systems and should probably work on all platforms supported by LibreOffice, but if it does not work on a certain platform please report, we might be able to add some fallback code to on screen rendering.
Created attachment 184054 [details] Test file with results for LO 7.5 alpha1+, on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 Tested with Bungee Color Fonts (COLRv0 and COLRv1) from https://github.com/djrrb/Bungee/releases/tag/v1.2.0 On Windows 10, it is still displayed garbled in Writer (as predicted by Khaled), but the PDF export of COLRv0 looks good. Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: c50cf1883af26daebdfc9d796ced3c20c222f43b CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: en-GB (en_GB); UI: en-GB Calc: threaded On Ubuntu 20.04, it is displayed well in app, and the COLRv0 version looks good in export too. Version: 7.5.0.0.alpha1+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: ad085990b8073a122ac5222e5220f8f1d6826dcf CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded (I had to open the PDF in Firefox as Evince would display everything black) I am however not sure what to make of the COLRv1 version displaying black in both app and export. Thoughts, Khaled? Needs a follow-up report? In any case, marking this one as verified given the improvement in PDF export between 7.4 and 7.5 (for both Windows and Linux).
(In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #18) > Created attachment 184054 [details] > Test file with results for LO 7.5 alpha1+, on Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 > > Tested with Bungee Color Fonts (COLRv0 and COLRv1) from > https://github.com/djrrb/Bungee/releases/tag/v1.2.0 > > On Windows 10, it is still displayed garbled in Writer This is a font issue due to some weird limitation on Windows implementation of COLRv0 table that is often overlooked. I reported it here: https://github.com/djrrb/Bungee/issues/86 > Evince would display everything black This is a Cairo bug, it is fixed but probably most distros are still using old version: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/cairo/cairo/-/issues/389 Every other PDF viewer I tested works fine. > I am however not sure what to make of the COLRv1 version displaying black in > both app and export. > > Thoughts, Khaled? Needs a follow-up report? We already have bug 151057. COLORv1 is too new, currently only Chrome and beta versions of Firefox support it, so it will be a while before the graphics libraries we use support it (and some systems like Windows 8 or 10 probbaly will never get it, unless we can use Skia the way Chrome uses it to get around system limitations). PDF export will take some effort as well, but if we can’t render it on screen it will be rather pointless.
Fabulous, thank you for the thorough response, Khaled.