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29 Jul 2024 18:25:29 EDT (-0400)
  Re: text paths?  
From: bart
Date: 17 Nov 2010 15:20:36
Message: <4ce43914$1@news.povray.org>
On 11/16/2010 07:48 PM, Thomas A. Fine wrote:
> 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)?
>
Inkscape can export text outline as a POV-Ray Bezier-spline prism;
and other output formats that also could be used to extract text paths 
information, like .svg or .ps.


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