> Hi,
>
> Is it possible in POV-Ray to get to the paths used in text ttf objects?
> Can I easily make a wireframe letter, for example?
>
> Or do I have to dig into the ttf font and convert the data there into
> something by hand (or by script more accurately)?
>
>      tom
>

A ttf is effectively a bezier spline forming the leters. What POV-Ray 
does is to use that spline and extrude it along the Z axis to give a prism.

You can't easily turn it into a wireframe. There is just no provision 
for that. In fact, outside a few primitives (mesh, mesh2, height_field 
and bicubic_patch) POV-Ray never use a mesh or whireframe.


You may dig into the ttf. It's not trivial and version 3.6 may not be 
able to do it at all.



Alain

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