Dan Griffis wrote:

> > > I am using POV-Ray 3.1.g.watcom.win32 (I got this info from the about
> box).
> > >
> > > I am working on the ttfdump and I'll send the results over as soon as it
> > > finishes downloading.
> > >
> > > Dan Griffis
> >
> > Got it. The problem is that the Apple Mac cmap in your fonts (platform ID
> 1,
> > format 0) is of Format 6, Format 6 is broken in the official POV-Ray.
> Strange
> > that all my Windows 98 fonts have no problems, but all yours do.
> >
> > The SuperPatch would probably work for you for now.
>
> Jon,
>
> That fixed the problem!  Is this an know issue for POV-Ray or should I
> submit
> a bug report on it?  Thanks again for all the help!  You're the man ;)
>

It's known. As soon as I get my stuff more cleaned up as far as fallback on
cmap goes, the POV-Team will have it to use. BTW, the
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugly way that Apple chose to do fonts up until recently
does really bad things with the cmap tables (the part of the TTF file that
tells which characters are in the TTF, and where they are located). One font I
looked at had 36 different cmap tables in it, and a different one would be used
depending on the language of MacOS you are using (i.e. English, spanish,
croatian, etc.) even though most of those 36 are for the same encoding.

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"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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