I've been playing with rendering various text objects with different fonts.

I used a standard (ie. from the "Insert" menu) text object, plug in my text, 
then type in the font I want to try and render away.  However, certain font 
don't render correctly.  That is, the letters are scrambled, and often 
aren't in the text string I entered in the text object.  I'm reasonably 
certain that the font is not corrupt because I can use it in a standard word 
processing program or paint tool like Print Shop or any tool that lets you 
select your font.

Here's an example that works just fine:

text
{
    ttf             // font type (only TrueType format for now)
    "arial.ttf",  // Microsoft Windows-format TrueType font file name
    "123456",
    TextDepth,              // the extrusion depth
    CharSeparation               // inter-character spacing

    texture { Text_Tex }
    rotate <0, -2, 0>
    translate <-3, 0.3, 2>
}


Now, I've got quite an extensive collection of font types because I do a lot 
of web development and associated graphics design.  I'm always looking for 
the right font for a given job.  I wanted to do some 3d rendering of the 
fonts I'm using for some web graphics.  I'm finding that quite a few fonts 
aren't working in POV-Ray quite as expected.

Is this a known problem?

- Patrick

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