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6 Oct 2024 03:37:30 EDT (-0400)
  Re: How to Get Non-Standart Characters in Truetype Fonts?  
From: Ken
Date: 5 May 2000 02:21:12
Message: <391267D6.9ADD203D@pacbell.net>
Fabian BRAU wrote:
> 
> Another solution could be to use elefont (http://www.armanisoft.ch/).
> You can export all the text (or just the letter you need) into
> dxf, after you convert it into inc (mesh) with crossroad
> (http://www.europa.com/~keithr/crossroads/) or 3Dwin
> (http://www.stmuc.com/thbaier/). Mesh are really (really!) faster
> to render :). I hope that elefont can handle your rebel characters :).

The only down side to this method is that the .dxf and .pov files
produced can be very large. If you only do this once in a while it
is ok but if you are going to produce a lot of files this way they
will consume a lot of hard drive space.

-- 
Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
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