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31 Jul 2024 20:24:17 EDT (-0400)
  Re: text Primitive Problem  
From: Knut Torgersen
Date: 10 Sep 2006 02:33:57
Message: <4503b1d5$1@news.povray.org>
nomail wrote:
> Knut Torgersen <"knut torgersens.net"> wrote:
>> On my WinXP 2GHz DualCore with 1 GB RAM I have the following problem:
>>
>> #include "colors.inc"
>>
>> camera {
>>    location  <  0.0,  0.0,-10.0 >
>>    direction <  0.0,  0.0,  3.5 >
>>    up        <  0.0,  1.0,  0.0 >
>>    right     <  3.2,  0.0,  0.0 >
>>    look_at   <  0.0,  0.0,  0.0 >
>> }
>>
>> light_source { <-30, 21,-20 > color White }
>>
>> text {

>>    translate x*-1.6
>>    pigment { color Yellow}
>>    finish { ambient 0.4 }
>> }
>>
>> Should render a yellow A, followed by a B and terminated by the
>> copyright symbol. Only A and B appears. This problem has been around for
>> some ten years now and I just wonder when (if) it will be addressed and
>> fixed.
> 
> RTFM: <http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/263/>
> 
> 
> 
Thank you for your polite solution. How nice that it took ten years for 
someone with your level of politeness to tell me that. Last time, there 
was talk of a bug and that it has been changed to a "raw" input of 
symbols was new for me.

But, thank you for your help.

\knutt\


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