"Jon A. Cruz" wrote:

> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>
> > > Conclusion: Rendering danish characters (and a lot of other 'foreign'
> > > characters, for that matter) is not possible in Pov-Ray 3.5 at its
> > > present state, and the TTF capability of the program is virtually
> > > unusable to me if this feature persists to be unavailable.
> >
> > It is working and has been tested.  Unfortunately there are so many
> > variations and formats of TTF fonts that only the operating system can
> > really know what to do with them.  Please don't jump to conclusions - this
> > is a *beta* version and the point is to find bugs (if this is one) so they
> > can be fixed!!!
>
> The specific-to-a-single-TTF-file problem is probably important.
>
> If anyone needs it, I have an old Java program I started that will let you
> look into a ttf and check it's structure. It will also flag fonts that are
> broken for 3.1.
>
> --
> Jon A. Cruz
> http://www.geocities.com/joncruz/action.html

I tested with the Microsoft 'Verdana' font, which I know to work very reliably
in any other case. If the TTF handling is OS-specific, shoulden't it be handled
in this way, then?

Best Regards,

Nils Olav Kilen.

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