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  • 4 weeks later...

Well, that doesn’t currently work at all, as far as I can see. :(

The problem is that you can at least copy two different drawing-related entities to the clipboard in Fontlab VI, namely Contours and Elements. According to the new document model introduced in Fontlab VI, each Contour is part of an Element which roughly acts as a container that can have references, and I have never researched what kind of information is copied to the clipboard, when you copy an entity of one of these kinds.

In any case, it seems you cannot paste anything to Affinity Designer after copying a Contour in Fontlab VI (“Paste” is simply greyed out), and when you copy an Element, an empty text frame is pasted into your Designer document. So I fear the clipboard management in Fontlab VI is highly proprietary.

Maybe I should get a clipboard viewer to investigate that further … hmm … :/

 

Edited by A_B_C
Was talking nonsense, of course
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It's not highly proprietary, Fontlab 6 uses “Adobe Illustrator AICB Clipboard Format”. I can copy between Illustrator and Fontlab, back and forth all day long and it works perfectly. Affinity is the app where it doesn't work back and forth.

As for what's on the clipboard, look a page before this and you'll see. :)

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Copied a square from Fontlab 6 and this is what's on the clipboard:

 

%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%Creator: FontLab FontGate EPS Export Module
%%CreationDate: Sun Jun 23 17:37:43 2019
%%BoundingBox: -1453 879 -858 1407
%%DocumentProcessColors: Cyan Magenta Yellow Black
%%DocumentNeededResources: procset Adobe_packedarray 2.0 0
%%+ procset Adobe_cmykcolor 1.1 0
%%+ procset Adobe_cshow 1.1 0
%%+ procset Adobe_customcolor 1.0 0
%%+ procset Adobe_pattern_AI3 1.0 0
%%+ procset Adobe_Illustrator_AI3 1.0 1
%AI3_ColorUsage: Color
%AI3_DocumentPreview: None
%AI9_Flatten: 1
%AI12_CMSettings: 00.MS
%%EndComments
%%BeginProlog
%%IncludeResource: procset Adobe_packedarray 2.0 0
Adobe_packedarray /initialize get exec
%%IncludeResource: procset Adobe_cmykcolor 1.1 0
%%IncludeResource: procset Adobe_cshow 1.1 0
%%IncludeResource: procset Adobe_customcolor 1.0 0
%%IncludeResource: procset Adobe_pattern_AI3 1.0 0
%%IncludeResource: procset Adobe_Illustrator_AI3 1.0 1
%%EndProlog
%%BeginSetup
Adobe_cmykcolor /initialize get exec
Adobe_cshow /initialize get exec
Adobe_customcolor /initialize get exec
Adobe_pattern_AI3 /initialize get exec
Adobe_Illustrator_AI3 /initialize get exec
%%EndSetup
0 A 0 O
*u
0 g
-1453 1407 m
-858 1407 L
-858 879 L
-1453 879 L
-1453 1407 l
f
*U
%%PageTrailer
gsave annotatepage grestore showpage
%%Trailer
Adobe_Illustrator_AI3 /terminate get exec
Adobe_pattern_AI3 /terminate get exec
Adobe_customcolor /terminate get exec
Adobe_cshow /terminate get exec
Adobe_cmykcolor /terminate get exec
Adobe_packedarray /terminate get exec
%%EOF

 

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  • 5 months later...

Points (pt) in Designer should be translated to font units in FontLab 7, if you select one of the Do not scale options in FontLab. At least, that’s the case on my system when I copy & paste. No special setup needed. FontLab even asks me whether I want to apply rounding. Of course, it would make sense to snap to an integer grid already in Designer. :)

Designer.png.24e03d2f3a085d82fd8d51352cf2f175.png

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I can just say it works as simple as Copy & Paste on my Mac. Even the Designer preference setting Copy SVG to clipboard doesn’t seem to make a difference. It just pastes the paths at the correct size. As desired. Hmm. Sorry for being no help. :(

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37 minutes ago, Lagarto said:

In case someone is interested, FontLab v.7.01 fixes the issue on Windows platform and outlines from within Affinity Designer now paste correctly in FontLab.

Good to know, thanks for update Lagarto! Is it also possible to paste from Fontlab (w/ changes) back into Affinity Designer?

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