[fontforge-users] Fwd: [fontforge-announce] Illustrator to Fontforge?

[Nathan Willis]

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Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 9:17 AM
Subject: [fontforge-announce] Illustrator to Fontforge?
Hello,
my characters are already drawn with Illustrator,
which is my favorite vector program.
Unfortunately copy + paste from Illu to Fontforge doesn’t work (on my Mac).
Is there any solution?

Hi Peter,

Well, FontForge on Linux does import SVGs through cut-and-paste for me —
what version(s) are you working with? It could be a bug, in which case it
would be good to get it fixed.

Regardless of the answer, however, FF should be able to import SVGs anyway
— using "Import..." from the File menu. In fact, I would recommend that
instead and would expect it to work better anyway. The reason being that
using Import would let you know what sort of offsets (in X and Y
coordinates) to expect, while copying and pasting from somewhere in the
middle of a document would likely not.

Also, as a side issue, I decided to send this reply to the
"fontforge-users" mailing list, rather than the "fontforge-announce" list,
so that's why the addresses differ in the mail headers. In theory the
announce list is just supposed to be news of new FF releases, and so you're
just going to find lots more readers who may be able to help answer your
questions if you go to the users list. (If you're not subscribed, you
should do that!)

Thanks,
Nate

[Max Rabkin]

Unfortunately copy + paste from Illu to Fontforge doesn’t work (on my Mac).

Copy + paste is complicated and unreliable under XQuartz (which FontForge
uses on Mac). You can try checking "Enable syncing" and "Update CLIPBOARD
when Pasteboard changes" in the XQuartz preferences under "Pasteboard", but
I know that vector graphics don't work between Inkscape and Mac programs.

You can try saving the files as SVG, or maybe it works better on Windows,
if you have it.

Best of luck!

--Max

Hello,
my characters are already drawn with Illustrator,
which is my favorite vector program.
Unfortunately copy + paste from Illu to Fontforge doesn’t work (on my Mac).
Is there any solution?
Thanks in advance!
Friendly Greetz
Peter HÃŒbner
Homepage: http://PH-Layout.de
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