nicolasbulb Posted May 29, 2019 Share Posted May 29, 2019 @firstdefence Currently FontLab dev are investigating the issue. I'll let you know. You can check what's up on the forum: https://forum.fontlab.com/fontlab-vi/copy-paste-between-a-vector-app-and-fl6-dont-work/ firstdefence 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted May 29, 2019 Author Share Posted May 29, 2019 Good news, everybody! They are now working on copy and paste from Designer! https://forum.fontlab.com/fontlab-vi/pasting-outlines-from-illustrator-that-aren't-filled-with-black-fixed!/ Alfred and Leigh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aekorps Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 What about pasting TO Affinity Designer from Fontlab? Is this on Affinity's end of Fontlabs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted June 22, 2019 Author Share Posted June 22, 2019 (edited) 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 June 23, 2019 by A_B_C Was talking nonsense, of course Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aekorps Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 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. A_B_C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aekorps Posted June 23, 2019 Share Posted June 23, 2019 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 A_B_C 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted June 23, 2019 Author Share Posted June 23, 2019 Oh well, you are pretty right. Of course, it cannot be proprietary, since copying back to Illustrator works. So there is indeed a problem on Affinity’s side as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted December 1, 2019 Author Share Posted December 1, 2019 Copy & Paste from Affinity Designer to FontLab 7 (out now) works perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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A_B_C Posted December 2, 2019 Author Share Posted December 2, 2019 10 hours ago, Lagarto said: … paste vertically flipped to FontLab … Hasn’t happened to me yet … macOS version … I’ll keep testing … Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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A_B_C Posted December 2, 2019 Author Share Posted December 2, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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A_B_C Posted December 4, 2019 Author Share Posted December 4, 2019 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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aekorps Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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A_B_C Posted January 23, 2020 Author Share Posted January 23, 2020 Confirmed. You guys seem to be working on the Windows platform, but with FontLab 7, it also works on the Mac now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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