I'm having a problem with the text object in a series of images I've
been working on.

As I've only noticed it with this particular font (Helvetica Bold), It
may be a problem with the
conversion utility I used to port my font folder to windows ttf format.

Any chance POV will read mac ttf format anytime in the near future??

Anyway, I thought I'd share it, in case.  The problem can be seen in the
Characters C, O and P
and is marked by a deformation of the curvature.  Nothing
Earth-shattering, but annoying nonetheless.

It may not be quite so pronounced with the pitted texture.

ADB

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The character n has the same problem.

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In article <417214F1.16467D5C@gold.sdsmt.edu> , "Anthony D. Baye" 
<ant### [at] goldsdsmtedu> wrote:

> Any chance POV will read mac ttf format anytime in the near future??

Well, reading the Mac specific documentation would have answered your
question already, >>How to use TrueType fonts in the "text" object<< :-)

<http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/762/>

    Thorsten

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Well, I tried setting my font directory to my system font folder, but
POV won't check inside font suitcases, and when I take the fonts out of the
suitcase, and try to access them directly, I get a message "Cannot locate
font table tags" or some such.

    So appearantly, whatever format my system fonts are in, it is not one
that POV understands.

    Thanks for the help.

ADB

Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <417214F1.16467D5C@gold.sdsmt.edu> , "Anthony D. Baye"
> <ant### [at] goldsdsmtedu> wrote:
>
> > Any chance POV will read mac ttf format anytime in the near future??
>
> Well, reading the Mac specific documentation would have answered your
> question already, >>How to use TrueType fonts in the "text" object<< :-)
>
> <http://www.povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/762/>
>
>     Thorsten
>
> ____________________________________________________
> Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
> e-mail: tho### [at] trfde
>
> Visit POV-Ray on the web: http://mac.povray.org

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In article <4172B078.915A9D57@gold.sdsmt.edu> , "Anthony D. Baye" 
<ant### [at] goldsdsmtedu> wrote:

>     Well, I tried setting my font directory to my system font folder, but
> POV won't check inside font suitcases, and when I take the fonts out of the
> suitcase, and try to access them directly, I get a message "Cannot locate
> font table tags" or some such.
>
>     So appearantly, whatever format my system fonts are in, it is not one
> that POV understands.

You are going about it a far to complicated way :-)  Just specify the font
name.  Finding the font does not depend you specifying what you think is the
font folder (there is more than one in Mac OS X as each user can have its
own superset of fonts).  The searching for the font is performed by the
system when looking for a Mac font.  Actually, as the Mac font searching is
done last, specifying some arbitrary font folder as include folder is likely
to pick up an incompatible file.

However, many of the more recent Mac OS X fonts are not TrueType fonts...

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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