Topic: some characters not showing in space center after copy pasting • RoboFont

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June 1, 2012 at 10:08 #4159

jo
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I am copy pasting glyphs from one font to another font.
If they are not in the default character set (e.g. lozenge, radical or ff) they are not shown in the space center of the font they are pasted to.
Upon closing and reopening they are there but i am sure there is a better solution?

RoboFont 1.2 on 10.6.8

June 1, 2012 at 11:28 #4161

frederik
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I cannot reproduce this issue according your description.

By “not default” you mean, they don’t have a unicode value, or they aren’t presented as a template glyph?
Do you have to close the Space Center? or the UFO document?

Upon closing and reopening they are there but i am sure there is a better solution?

yeah, this is idd not standard behavior :)

thanks

June 1, 2012 at 11:48 #4162

jo
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sorry for the confusing post.

i have a font with eg the glyph radical. I copy it from the font collection and do File –> New font. Then with no glyph selected in the new font I press paste. I can see the radical in the font collection. I select it and open a space center window. The radical is shown in the “input bar” but not in the actual window. Also in the metrics i can see the radical but no values for width, left and right margin.

if i close the font and then reopen it everything is fine.

Sorry again and thanks for the quick reply.

June 1, 2012 at 13:00 #4168

frederik
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is the “radical” glyph already defined by a template glyph?

if so it creates a “radical.copy_1” glyph and pasted the drawings in there (only if you don’t have a selection in the font collection)
this implicates that the unicode value is changed and “√” in Space Center will find your pasted glyph.

hope this makes sense

June 1, 2012 at 13:29 #4169

jo
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The new font i am copying the “radical” to just has the default “Latin-1” character set. So there is no template for the radical. When i paste it (from the font that has the “radical”) it just adds it as a new glyph with the name radical (no .copy_1 suffix). In the inspector i see the unicode value, width and margins. Just in the space center it does not show the glyph.
Even more surprising. I just copied the radical a second time to the new font so it adds the “radical.copy_1” glyph. If i select the “radical” and the “radical.copy_1” and open the space center it shows the “radical.copy_1” but not the first version.

is there a way to post screen shots?

thanks

June 1, 2012 at 15:57 #4170

frederik
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thanks, was able to reproduce it, will be fixed in the next update :)
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