Glyph Contours and the Clipboard

I quote from a post in the Support Forum.

http://forum.high-logic.com:9080/t/unable-to-cut-a-contour-using-a-knife/3433/7

As a result of this question, as an experiment, I copied the contour of a letter x from one of my fonts and tried to paste it into the Serif DrawPlus X4 program, with the idea of producing a pdf displaying the contour if possible. Had that worked, I would have tried to use a quadratic contour.

In the event, all I seem to have got was the words as follows.

Glyph Contours

I have tried running the clipbrd.exe facility on the Windows xp system that I am using and that just says Glyph Contours as well.

I am now wondering whether FontCreator actually puts the glyph contour data onto the clipboard or whether it uses a set of various internal clipboards and just uses the external clipboard to indicate which internal clipboard to use.

Please note that I know very little about the clipboard system and only learned of the existence of the clipbrd.exe facility while trying these experiments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipboard_(computing)

If the contour data does actually go onto the clipboard, is there any way to paste it into another program please?

William Overington

6 June 2012

You can’t paste the contours into other software.

Thank you for your reply.

William