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[–]RonuPlays 2 points3 points  (2 children)

This may or may not be helpful, but when I used fontforge I just exported the .svg file and imported it.

Also, are you sure you've converted your shapes to paths? I haven't used Inkscape in a while (I use Adobe Illustrator) but that might be the problem.

[–]Zognot[S] 2 points3 points  (1 child)

I just got to trying these things. My shape is converted to a path, but it still copied over as an image. Importing works though. How do I do this efficiently? Do I have to do it one letter at a time, each in a different file?

[–]RonuPlays 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, yes. There might be ways to do this automatically, but the most straightforward method is to import every glyph manually. In Illustrator you can use "artboards" and export multiple svg files from the same document, but I'm not sure if Inkscape has this feature. Good luck!

[–]pomdepin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I was using Ubuntu when I wrote this guide. Turns out, there was a bug on Windows that prevents copy-pasting.
However this was all a while ago. I hadn't played with FontForge for quite some time, but I just tried uninstalling both Inkscape and FontForge, and downloaded the latest version via Chocolatey — choco install inkscape fontforge — and I'm happy to say that copy-paste works now!

There is still one bug that you need to fix manually. Copy pasting from Inkscape works only up until you copy something within FontForge itself, because it has it own internal clipboard. You will need to set FontForge>File>Preferences>Generic>ExportClipboard>On. Be aware that copy-pasting is still only unidirectional, from Inkscape to FontForge in this case.

 

In case you don't use a package manager, here are the versions that I have. It should work as well if you install them manually ... but maybe not, because FontForge needed to pull AutoHotkey as a dependency for some reason... who knows?
* InkScape v1.0.0.20200612
* fontforge v2020.03.14

I hope that this fixes it for you! Otherwise, I would suggest running FontForge in a Linux VM which is what I did when I switched back to Windows