POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.unix : Linux and Windows : Re: Linux and Windows Server Time
1 Jun 2024 03:08:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Linux and Windows  
From: Stefan Viljoen
Date: 27 Nov 2006 14:07:56
Message: <456b378b@news.povray.org>
Alan Mathews spake:

> Will a windows pov file render on Linux?
> Are the files interchangable?

Yes - I usually design in Windows (using moray + Windows pov) and render in
Linux on the same machine. You just need to make sure you change the paths
around (all \ becomes /) and make sure the relative paths still match up
(so that the scene has all its components available).

This is relatively easy to do... for example, to access .ttf files in both
systems, the windows partition is mounted in linux, then

C:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf

becomes

/mnt/win/windows/fonts/arial.ttf

and so forth and so on.

-- 
Stefan Viljoen
Software Support Technician / Programmer
Polar Design Solutions


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