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26 Apr 2024 09:51:15 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Bordered Characters  
From: Mike Horvath
Date: 21 Feb 2015 06:05:02
Message: <54e8665e$1@news.povray.org>
On 2/21/2015 5:11 AM, Le_Forgeron wrote:
> Le 21/02/2015 03:34, Mike Horvath a écrit :
>
>>
>> I wish POVray fully supported fonts and 2D vector formats like SVG. That
>> would be a lot of work though.
>
> Fonts : you have truetype, what do you need more ?
>

Stroke and fill, underline, superscript, subscript off the top of my head.



> SVG: For having written by hand a SVG at work (small chart for disk
> usage from php) it's just painful to write so I would not expect it
> inline the SDL (but as a reference to a file, it's possible), and given
> the xml nature, a complete xml parser would be needed. Xerces is a
> possibility, yet it does not provide the interpretation part. What would
> you do with such SVG ?
>

I create designs and illustrations in GeoGebra, and it would be cool to 
be able to import them as extruded shapes, like fonts.


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