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4 Nov 2024 17:34:42 EST (-0500)
  Re: Weird text spacing bug  
From: Anders K 
Date: 3 Oct 2001 10:32:55
Message: <3bbb2197@news.povray.org>
Hey, I just thought of what is probably happening. Because of kerning,
POV-Ray is moving the "o" towards the "Y", but is not moving the "u" as
well. If this is the case, it should definately be fixed.

"Anders K." <and### [at] f2scom> wrote in message
news:3bbb210d$1@news.povray.org...
> When rendering the word "You" (with a capital Y) in a text object, there
is
> way too much space between the "o" and the "u". This happens in every font
> I've tried it with, but it doesn't seem to happen in other words
containing
> "ou" (even "you" with a lowercase y). Here's an example:
>
> #default { pigment { rgb 1 } finish { ambient 1 } }
> camera { location <1, 0, -2> look_at <1, 0, 0> }
> text { ttf "timrom.ttf", "You", 0, 0 }
> text { ttf "timrom.ttf", "Zou", 0, 0 translate -y }
>
> If you want, I'll post an image in .b-t.binaries.
>
> Anders
> (POV-Ray 3.5 beta 4, Win98, Athlon 700, 256MB)
>
>
>


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