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31 Jul 2024 14:22:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Two feature requests related to SVG  
From: Warp
Date: 16 Jun 2007 16:43:08
Message: <46744b5c@news.povray.org>
Alain <ele### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> You could use a method similar as the one used for fonts rendering. After all, 
> TTFs are a kind of, specialised, vector drawn images.

  Actually I don't know how povray renders ttf fonts. However, my guess
is that it creates a kind of prism object from the text using the font.
In other words it doesn't evaluate the font for each ray, but only a
precalculated prism. (Please someone correct me if my guess is wrong.
It would be interesting to know.)

  If this is so, then font rendering in povray is quite a different thing.

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                                                          - Warp


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