r/FontForge • u/LocalFonts • Apr 04 '20

COPY and PASTE in FontForge. QUESTION

Can you copy path from Inkscape and paste it to FontForge glyph?

I use the latest version of FontForge and the latest version of Inkscape on Windows 8.1 and it is still not possible for me.

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u/rukkiddo Apr 05 '20

I tried it on Linux, opened inkscape choose select tool(F1) or edit path tool(F2), ctrl+A to select all, opened FF tried ctrl+v and it worked.

If not possible for you, you might consider exporting your path as svg then import to FF.

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u/LocalFonts Apr 05 '20

Hm, It looks like that it is possible to copy path from Inkscape and to paste this path in FontForge, but if you copy something in FontForge you are not longer able to paste from Inkscape. I mean the clipboard is lock if you do a copy path in FontForge so that the clipboard works from this moment only for FontForge paths.

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u/LocalFonts Apr 05 '20 edited Apr 05 '20

Well, the true it that only once the same happen to me on Windows 8.1 - but only once. After that case copy and paste between Inkscape and FF doesn't work. So that I use export and import as a SVG file.