Noto Color Emoji causes InDesign to freeze/lag?

[Elisabeth5FF3]

Hi,

I am testing the Google font "Noto Color Emoji" with InDesign 2020 (version 17.4.1) and having some troubles:
My whole document became so slow, or even froze ever since I inserted a glyph in this font.
Viewing the Glyph panel is also a matter of minutes ...

Has someone stumbled upon this issue?
The non-color-version (Noto Emoji) works really smooth.
Does InDesign not really support svg-fonts yet?

[Elisabeth5FF3]

forgot to mention that I am working on windows.

[Rene Andritsch]

SVG OpenType fonts have been support since InDesign version 14 (CC 2018). Try to update InDesign to the current version and try again.
I did not encounter any problems with that font on macOS and InDesign 2024 (19.3)

[Rishabh_Tiwari]

Hi,

Sorry to hear about the trouble. In addition to the suggestions shared by Rene, you can also try them in this article. Feel free to update the discussion if you need further assistance.

Thanks

Rishabh

[Elisabeth5FF3]

Hi, thanks for the article!
I'll try clearing the font cache, maybe thats the reason.
However, when my colleague testet the font, it was slow too - even though it wasn't even installed but only in the "document fonts" folder. So maybe a corrupt font cache is not the issue 🤔

[Elisabeth5FF3]

Hi, thank you for your suggestions!

I asked a colleague of mine to test the font, and on his computer, unfortunately, it was quite slow too.
We updated to InDesign version 18, it was a bit faster but still not as fast as we wished it to be.
As soon as we checked the glyph panel, or used a glyph of this font in the Text, InDesign slowed down significantly 😕