Fontforge: Copy/paste glyph from another FontForge window not working

[ilius]

I open two fonts in two FontForge windows, select a glyph in first window, copy, select a (empty) glyph in second window and paste. But it does not do anything.
Both fonts are Unicode BMP
I even tried opening one font in two windows, still not working

[ilius]

Apparently it only works once!
So I have to close and re-open the second (target) file to paste another (range) of glyphs from first file

[frank-trampe]

What platform?

[ilius]

Debian GNU/Linux

[juanitogan]

Seems to be an issue with the clipboard across all OSs.

Mac: #2528

I have the same/similar issue on Windows 10. In general, I found that I can only paste into another font if I haven't done other edits there since opening it. Otherwise, close it and reopen it. I can then do multiple pastes as long as I don't fiddle with other things. Yet, sometimes, this quits as well and it just won't work at all -- I have yet to figure the magic of that out.

UPDATE: Finally found what causes it to not work at all: opening the second font from the OS (such as clicking on a SFD file in file explorer) instead of opening via the FontForge menus. When opening the second font from the menus, all cutting/pasting works properly in all directions. Chain opening of several files in various ways may be what leads to that other funny behavior described above.

[c0dehunter]

This didn't help me.

[serhioV]

does not work on Windows 10, version 08:20 UTC 31 JUL 2017

Copy one glypth from one font to another does nothing

[Artyrm]

Same on win 7.

[jeffjohnson]

For those who are still having problems with this, open the two fonts from the same fontforge instance and then you can copy/paste from one font to another. Tried on Elementary OS 5 (Juno, based on Ubuntu 16 LTS I believe).

[sakthikanth]

It works for me when open another file from the same window instead of opening from the folder location.

Thanks,