Emojis in lyrics not visible when exported to PDF

• Aug 8, 2021 - 21:20

Hi!

Is it possible to have emojis in lyrics showing when exporting a score to PDF? In MuseScore itself, they're showing fine in my score, but when I export the sheet music, they are blank in the PDF file.

I tried a couple of different fonts for the lyrics, but they all produce the same result. I could of course use plain text instead of emojis, but they symbolize certain things in the lyrics I have. 😄

Any help appreciated,
– Andreas


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Before having to reproduce it from scratch, please attache a corresponding sample score. Which font you're using for the emojis in MuseScore (maybe also interesting about your OS)?

In reply to by kuwitt

Added a sample MuseScore file, the exported PDF, and a screenshot of how it should look (correct appearance in MuseScore).

I've tried multiple fonts, all with the same result. The one in the score is "Edwin", but I haven't been able to find a working one.

Version info:
OS: macOS 10.16, Arch.: x86_64, MuseScore version (64-bit): 3.6.2.548020600, revision: 3224f34

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Emoji_test.mscz 4.02 KB
Emoji_test.pdf 25.9 KB
Screenshot 2021-08-08 at 23.43.21.png 854.33 KB

In reply to by Jm6stringer

This is a matter of fonts. If a font doesn’t have a character, it’s usually taken from a random other font. If you have only one font installed on the system that has this particular emoji, then indeed, changing the font won’t change the character (not image!).

Rendering emoji in colour is a nōn-standard and OS- and font-dependent thing. It will, thus, also depend on which emoji font(s) one has installed.

That being said, I’d expect things that render in MuseScore to do so for PDF export as well… but then, https://musescore.org/en/node/323457 is another exception to that justified expectation… and I wonder how this would even come to be, as doing things differently in PDF export requires actively coding it that way…

Thanks for the feedback!

I've found a workaround:
1. Export the score to PNGs.
2. Combine them to a PDF using e.g. https://png2pdf.com/
3. The PDF now looks the same as the score in MuseScore, emojis included.

This doesn't fix the PDF export problem, but lets you have emojis in a PDF. 🙂

I use MuseScore 3.6.2 with Ubuntu Studio 20.04.2 LTS (64 bit Linux).
I cannot to add emojis to the lyrics.
I mean, I don't see any option to get that.

In reply to by jotape1960

Emojis and other special characters all entered from the Special Characters dialog. Press F2 or click the icon at far left of the text toolbar while in text edit mode. When the dialog appears, click Unicode, then scroll to where it says Emoticons or Emojis. Note that not all fonts support them, so you might just see empty boxes in the dialog unless you change fonts.

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