Emoji in headings aren't displayed in PDF exports

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The issue:

Emoji in headings aren’t displayed/included in PDF exports.

Steps to reproduce

  1. Paste this into the Sandbox vault:
# whoa πŸ˜†πŸ€¨πŸ˜πŸ₯³πŸ˜±πŸ«¨

## πŸ©΄πŸ‘˜πŸ‘ πŸ§€β›‘οΈ

πŸΈπŸ¦πŸ»β€β„οΈπŸ±πŸŸ

Screenshot 2023-09-30 at 18.43.43
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  1. Export PDF

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? Yes

Expected result

Emoji is displayed in the PDF.

Actual result

Emoji in headings are missing on PDF export.

Screenshot 2023-09-30 at 18.44.32
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Environment

macOS Ventura 13.6 (22G120)

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: v1.4.14
	Installer version: v1.4.14
	Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 22.6.0: Fri Sep 15 13:41:28 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.141.3.700.8~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6000 22.6.0
	Login status: logged in
	Catalyst license: supporter
	Insider build toggle: on
	Live preview: on
	Legacy editor: off
	Base theme: dark
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 0
	Restricted mode: off
	Plugins installed: 0
	Plugins enabled: 0

RECOMMENDATIONS:
	none

Additional information

I tried this using Windows 11 as well with the same result. Not a heavy emoji user, but it’s unexpected emoji don’t get passed to the PDF export.

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I’ve got i bit better result. But not all emoji display correctly

зобраТСння
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I have the same problem with other emoji too

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This is a font problem

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But how can we fix it? I tried most standard fonts to set: Arial, Comic Sans etc. The problem hasn’t gone

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I’ve found out that it’s a problem with the font weight. The workaround I’m using now is to wrap the emoji(s) in a span that resets the font weight like this:

# <span style="font-weight: normal">πŸ“œ</span> Readme

This way the emoji will still be shown after exporting to pdf.

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Thanks for the hack, 3xpl01t. Works for me too!

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While using Linux, I’ve noticed that all emojis are exported in black and white in PDFs, despite having the following fonts installed on the system:

  • Apple Color Emoji
  • Segoe UI Emoji
  • Noto Color Emoji

Moreover, I have tried the trick of @3xpl01t, but did not worked for me…