You can copy and paste many different parts of glyphs. You can select multiple glyphs from within the Font panel and the copy them to the clipboard. This way you can paste them into another font or within the same font at a different selection of glyphs.
You can also copy (part) of the glyph outline within a glyph panel. Then you can paste it within the same or another glyph panel, but you can also paste this outline data in vector-based software like Adobe Illustrator.
See: Import Vector Image.
The Paste Special command is used to specify what parts of a group of glyphs (already copied to the clipboard) should be pasted.
You can select any number of glyphs in the Font panel by clicking on them while holding down the Ctrl key. You can perform several operations on the selected glyphs.
Destination allows you to paste the glyphs into:
•The current glyph selection; select the same number of glyphs you copied prior to the paste action, or select just one glyph to copy all starting at the selected glyph. If you copied a single glyph, it will be pasted into all selected glyphs.
•Glyphs with the same name (optionally add if not already available)
•Append as new glyphs (optionally ignore if already available).
You can specify what to paste through the options in the Data section.
Glyph Name will paste all glyph names
Metrics are the side-bearings and Advance Width of each glyph; The side-bearings option includes left, right, top, and bottom side-bearings.
Code-points will paste the mappings. Keep same code-points adds new mappings to the glyphs. Mappings that already exist will be reassigned to the pasted glyph(s) when the Overrule same code-points option is selected. You can also choose to add mappings. Add code-points adds all mappings. When mappings are already available, they will be reassigned to the pasted glyph(s).
Anchors will include all available anchor points which can be used by OpenType layout features.
Note: copy and paste composite glyphs and/or color outlines between fonts relies on glyph names.
