[Request] Paste special (i.e. from other vector apps)

ryan

Can there be a special Paste function that pastes in the middle of the current glyph view regardless of the coordinates of the vector art from which it came in Illustrator? Maybe Shift+Cmd+V?

I see benefits for the current paste behavior, like if you pay close attention to position and want RF to honor it. But I think that often if vector art is pasted from elsewhere, it's lost off the main work area, and then it becomes a game of hide-and-seek. Video

Would be great to have the option to paste it within view.

TIA,
Ryan

frederik

Pastaline?

ryan

Great thanks you two!

I've combined these things into one script that does pretty much what I was looking to do. Here it is:

paste special.gif

# menuTitle : Paste to Baseline (Pasteline?)
# shortCut  : shift+command+v

from lib.contrib.aicbTools import readAICBFromPasteboard, drawAICBOutlines

g = CurrentGlyph()
data = readAICBFromPasteboard()
source = RGlyph()
drawAICBOutlines(data, source.getPen())
bounds = source.bounds

if bounds:
    L = bounds[0]
    B = bounds[1]
    source.moveBy((-L, -B))
    g.appendGlyph(source)

frederik

RoboFont uses the old aicbTools from @tal.

a small example of getting copied vector data and draw it in the current glyph scaled to the x-height

from lib.contrib.aicbTools import readAICBFromPasteboard, drawAICBOutlines

data = readAICBFromPasteboard()

source = RGlyph()
drawAICBOutlines(data, source.getPen())

dest = CurrentGlyph()
scaleToHeight = dest.font.info.xHeight

bounds = source.bounds
if bounds:
    minx, miny, maxx, maxy = bounds
    h = maxy - miny
    source.moveBy((-minx, -miny))
    scale = scaleToHeight / h
    source.scaleBy(scale)
    
    dest.clear()
    dest.appendGlyph(source)

gferreira

hello @ryan,

the pasted contours are selected, so you can get the selection bounds and move only the selected contours to the origin:

from mojo.events import addObserver

class MyCustomPaste:

    def __init__(self):
        addObserver(self, "pasteCallback", "paste")

    def pasteCallback(self, notification):
        g = notification['glyph']
        L = min([c.bounds[0] for c in g.selectedContours])
        B = min([c.bounds[1] for c in g.selectedContours])
        for c in g.selectedContours:
            c.moveBy((-L, -B))

MyCustomPaste()

cheers!

ryan

Great thanks @gferreira! Is there a way before that to get the bezier data from the pasteboard and append that to CurrentGlyph? Is it NSPasteboard?

gferreira

hello @ryan,

here’s a quick way to move the pasted glyph contours to the origin position:

g = CurrentGlyph()
L, B, R, T = g.bounds
g.moveBy((-L, -B))

hope this helps!

SOLVED [Request] Paste special (i.e. from other vector apps)