POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Problem with TTF object, danish characters : Re: Problem with TTF object, danish characters Server Time
4 Nov 2024 21:22:09 EST (-0500)
  Re: Problem with TTF object, danish characters  
From: Jon A  Cruz
Date: 23 Sep 2001 16:35:47
Message: <3BAE4726.DAF9FBEA@geocities.com>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> > Conclusion: Rendering danish characters (and a lot of other 'foreign'
> > characters, for that matter) is not possible in Pov-Ray 3.5 at its
> > present state, and the TTF capability of the program is virtually
> > unusable to me if this feature persists to be unavailable.
>
> It is working and has been tested.  Unfortunately there are so many
> variations and formats of TTF fonts that only the operating system can
> really know what to do with them.  Please don't jump to conclusions - this
> is a *beta* version and the point is to find bugs (if this is one) so they
> can be fixed!!!

The specific-to-a-single-TTF-file problem is probably important.


If anyone needs it, I have an old Java program I started that will let you
look into a ttf and check it's structure. It will also flag fonts that are
broken for 3.1.


--
Jon A. Cruz
http://www.geocities.com/joncruz/action.html


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