> Thanks for all your answers and for the update to the documentation. I am using
> latest(RC3 as of today) pov 3.7.
>
>   After discussing with Blender developers, it appears that when we use border
> render, Blender expects a partial image not one with black, so the problem was
> actually opposite to what I thought it was: POV-Ray's filling its image with
> black provides a full size image whereas blender is expecting a tile. Blender
> developers have chosen to provide a cropped partial image to allow more
> flexibility for things like renderfarm setups or custom compositing pipelines,
> if I understood correctly.
> Now that the problem is clearer Blender developers will probably work around it,
> but an option to chose tile/padded from POV could also be nice for the future if
> it doesn't exist already.
>
>

If that option is ever added, I'd recomend making it an ini/command line 
switch. I don't think that such a setting have it's place inside the 
scene proper.



Alain

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