The text object isn't working with
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf. Used to work - taken from an
old .pov file of mine.

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/53286147/fonttest.pov
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/53286155/fonttest.png

Under Ubuntu, both Lucid (current) and Hardy (2 years old).

Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (Debian  (x86_64-linux-gnu-g+
+ 4.3.3 @ x86_64-pc-linux-gnu))

and

Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (Debian  (i486-linux-gnu-g++
 4.1.2 @ i486-pc-linux-gnu))


Any idea what the problem is?

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Rebuilt from
http://www.povray.org/redirect/www.povray.org/ftp/pub/povray/Official/Unix/povray-3.6.tar.bz2
and verified the problem still exists.

$ povray +ifonttest.pov +ofonttest.png

Persistence of Vision(tm) Ray Tracer Version 3.6.1 (g++ 4.4.3 @
 x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu)
This is an unofficial version compiled by:
 dar### [at] chaosreignscom

.....

File: fonttest.pov  Line: 8
Parse Warning: Character 101 (0x65) not found in
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf
File: fonttest.pov  Line: 8
Parse Warning: Character 115 (0x73) not found in
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf

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Verification that the problem is not in the .ttf file, this works (imagemagick):

convert -background lightblue -fill blue -pointsize 48 -font
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf label:test fonttest.png

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Le 08/08/2010 20:15, darxus nous fit lire :
> The text object isn't working with
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf. Used to work - taken from an
> old .pov file of mine.

> Under Ubuntu, both Lucid (current) and Hardy (2 years old).

> Any idea what the problem is?
> 
> 
Confirmed (ubuntu Lucid amd64 / 10.4) with povray 3.7beta38 (simile)
Seems specific to that font and the one in that directory (or tree ?)
 (tested with a different fonts in my drive, worked fine).

Font analysis might be welcome... If only I knew what to do.

Fontforge display it with blue sides, wonder if it's some kerning, and
if it matters. Or maybe it's the HUGE number of chars in the font ?

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Am 08.08.2010 20:51, schrieb Le_Forgeron:

> Font analysis might be welcome... If only I knew what to do.

Already analyzed & solved by now.

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darxus wrote:
> The text object isn't working with
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont/FreeSans.ttf. Used to work - taken from an
> old .pov file of mine.
> 
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/53286147/fonttest.pov
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/53286155/fonttest.png
> 

Same with the other freefont (Scott.ttf);
fixed  with

global_settings{charset utf8}

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