In article <3e153de6.685399@news.povray.org>,
 rol### [at] pibe (Roland Vansteenkiste) wrote:

> My goal is  placing a text object on a predifined curve (or object)
> and I want POV to do all the calculations needed to do that. I've
> posted a gif file FLEXICYBER.GIF in the images group to show wath i'm
> trying to do. Each letter is one text object and placed (and
> calculated) manually. My goal is to make the word one object and to
> let POV do all the calculations and placement.

Well, the best way would be to use a macro that takes a text string and 
lines the characters up on a spline. You could then do something like:

object {SplineText(MySpline, Size, Spacing, "myfont.ttf", "Hello")}

There is no existing macro that I know of which does this, but it would 
not be too difficult to write. The reorientation transformation in 
transforms.inc would come in useful. I'll try to cook one up if I have 
time.

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