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  Re: calibri.ttf font - garbled result.  
From: Jim Holsenback
Date: 10 May 2011 14:28:52
Message: <4dc983e4$1@news.povray.org>
On 05/10/2011 02:53 PM, cmoses wrote:
> "geep999"<nomail@nomail>  wrote:
>> POV-Ray 3.7.0.RC3 on Slackware 13.0 x86_64.
>> I pointed povray to use the calibri.ttf font over on my Windows 7 partition.
>> The result is garbled - strange letters with accents appear instead of the
>> expected text. (KDE's kfontview opens calibri.ttf OK, with nothing strange).
>>
>> Pointing povray to use other fonts of Win7, e.g. comic.ttf and arial.ttf, was
>> OK.
>>
>> I solved the problem by pushing calibri.ttf through fontforge and resaving it
>> as mycalibri.ttf.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>
> Peter,
>
> I am having the same issue when trying to use the Calibri font.  Could you post
> or email me the "mycalibri.ttf".  I am not familiar with FontForge or how it is
> used.
>
> Clayton
>
>
>
>
fyi: that's been fixed:
http://bugs.povray.org/task/200


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