Usually it's a problem either with not having the Apple MacRoman mapping table
(for the standard POV-Ray), or the Microsoft Unicode mapping table (for patched
versions with Unicode support). Many newer mac fonts have only the generic
Unicode mapping table and not the Apple MacRoman one, and thus can also be a
problem.

I really need to fix up my patch to compensate for this, and especially for the
newer Mac fonts since they don't work with the stock nor the Unipatched
versions. I'm sorry, I'll get my code out now and finish up the new rev to the
patch.

If you don't see something in a day or two, send me mail and ask me about it.


Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <1e4z8uy.98oe1s1n2asasN%smellenbergh@skynet.be> ,
> sme### [at] skynetbe (smellenbergh) wrote:
>
> > This only happens with Mac converted fonts. At least, that's what we
> > found out. We can use all original windows true type fonts.
> > If we use the little utility that comes with the official 3.1 Macintosh
> > version to convert the installed Mac fonts, we can use some converted
> > Mac fonts (like verdana) but most of them are unusable.
>
> Basically all it does is take the resource based ttf data and copies it into
> the data fork.
>
> > We can not verify at this moment if the number of usable converted fonts
> > has decreased since the december release. If we remember well, there are
> > no changes between the december version and the current in the handling
> > of the true type fonts object.
>
> There must have been a change, it is probably looking for the wrong cmap
> tables (Windows only ones) and ignores the Mac cmap tables...
>
> > The official Mac Team does warn that not all converted fonts are usable,
> > perhaps nothing has changed yet.
>
> I found that depending on the font adding all Mac cmap tables (and for
> MegaPOV I would also add all Unicode tables) will give better results, at
> least for the official version.  Just try to run the Apple AAT Font Tool
> over the font <http://fonts.apple.com/Tools/tooldir/AATFontTool.sea.hqx>, or
> try the tons of other programmer level tools at
> http://fonts.apple.com/Tools/agreed.html.
> NOTE: Fonts may grow in size considerably when adding all cmap tables!!!
>
>       Thorsten
>
> ____________________________________________________
> Thorsten Froehlich
> e-mail: mac### [at] povrayorg
>
> I am a member of the POV-Ray Team.
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