POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : ATTN Gilles Tran: your Library includes crash POV : Re: ATTN Gilles Tran: your Library includes crash POV Server Time
5 Aug 2024 18:24:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: ATTN Gilles Tran: your Library includes crash POV  
From: Timothy R  Cook
Date: 22 Sep 2002 07:22:19
Message: <3d8da7eb@news.povray.org>
Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
> Well, that would require me to have the font.

which I have...

> I can tell you that it works with TTF fonts.  The problem with TTC
 > font files is that they are a collection of TTF font files in one
 > file, and POV-Ray only supports them with one TTF font file inside
 > (the others are ignored).  So if the font does not include the correct
 > TTF font file as the first in the collection it contains, POV-Ray will
 > not be able to find the correct character because it does not have enough
 > information to make a choice which TTF font in the TTC font file to pick.

ahhh, that'll do it

 >  The solution is to convert the TTC font file to multiple
> TTF font files and then use the appropriate TTF file.

Next question: how do I do that?

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.scifi-fantasy.com
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