If you are having problems and need to figure out some issues with fonts, send me
a mail. I have a simple Java utility I've been hacking on to get info from fonts
so that I can do the right thing in regards to TTF support. I can clean up a copy
and add a couple of warning lights so that you can see what the problem is.

Josh English wrote:

> I see. I tested it with the basic Text Fonts template, which uses cyrstal, and
> it works fine.
> I'll try porting the fonts from my Windows machine again. I can't remember
> which .ttf files I copied and which ones I converted... It looks like I'll
> have some hunting to do!
>
> Thanks
>
> smellenbergh wrote:
>
> > Josh English <eng### [at] spiritonecom> wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone tried including a .ttf font into a scene using MacMegaPov
> > > 0.3? I get a whole string of errors.  It tells me that it can't find the
> > > character "xxx" where "xxx" is the hexadecimal code (I think that's hex,
> > > anyway) for every character.
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > The official Mac Team does warn that not all converted fonts are usable,
> > perhaps nothing has changed yet.
> >
> > Smellenbergh
> >
> > > I don't have this problem with the December release of the McUnofficial.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Josh English
> > > eng### [at] spiritonecom
> > > "May your hopes, dreams, and plans not be destroyed by a few zeros."
> >
> > --
> > e-mail:sme### [at] skynetbe
> >
> > http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh
>
> --
> Josh English
> eng### [at] spiritonecom
> "May your hopes, dreams, and plans not be destroyed by a few zeros."

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