In article <3d4dad8c@news.povray.org>,
 "James Taylor" <jim### [at] blueyondercouk> wrote:

> I'm sure this must have been raised many times before, but how would I wrap
> a text string around a cylinder. To clarify - the front of the letters
> should be aligned normal to the cylinders curvature - like the letters on a
> beer bottle label.

If you want something like printing on a label, use a text object with 
the object pattern, and the mapping warps to wrap it around the 
cylinder. If you need actual objects for the text, you could get what 
you want by modifying the Circle_Text() macro in shapes.inc.

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