Glyphs 3 - Paste vectors

[mekkablue (Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer)]

Path attributes can confuse the transmission of the shapes. In AI, remove all attributes, expansions, etc., or expand the outline, and just copy the barebones path.

[GeorgSeifert]

Is this data from a failing “paste”?

[Ginjam (Jamie Clarke Type)]

Ah, no it’s the one with attributes. I’ll try and find a failing one

[GeorgSeifert]

When you have outlines on the paths in Illustrator, Glyphs tries to preserve them. It you don’t like that, remove them in Illustrator as Rainer mentioned.

[FandoFonts]

@GeorgSeifert

from AppKit import NSPasteboard
pasteboard = NSPasteboard.generalPasteboard()
for item in pasteboard.pasteboardItems():
	print("__item:", item)
	for t in item.types():
		print("__type:", t)
		print(item.dataForType_(t))

I tried to run the script but it still appears the color wheel and I have to quit Glyphs.
The version of Illustrator is 25.2.3

[FandoFonts]

[GeorgSeifert]

Can you run the same script outside of Glyphs? I would use Textmate but you can use anything that can run python.

[FandoFonts]

In the end I forget the computer while I was having diner and when returned to the computer Glyphs ended the last run I made of the script.
info paste illustrator.txt.zip (12.0 KB)

[GeorgSeifert]

Thanks for the data. I could fix this. It seems that Illustrator puts empty PDF data in the clipboard.

[mwichary (Marcin Wichary)]

I am also having the same problem. Copy from Illustrator works in Glyphs 2, but doesn’t in Glyphs 3, seemingly regardless of Illustrator clipboard settings described above.

I wanted to attach the txt file with the Python script output you described above, but it tells me “sorry, new users cannot upload documents.” But I hope you can download it here (click on the download icon in the upper right corner to get the file)

[GeorgSeifert]

Can you try the latest cutting edge version? (You can activate it in Preferences > Updates)