Thank you for the reply. I will give that a try.

"Chris B" <c_b### [at] btconnectcomnospam> wrote:
> "Shark" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
> news:web.4664b72450d4c3d6ae81e560@news.povray.org...
> > Is there a way to make text follow a path? Are there any include files
> > available that will allow me to do this?
> >
>
> Hi Tim,
>
> Yes. The transforms.inc file contains the Spline_Trans function.
>
> You can define a path through space by declaring a spline (see 'spline' in
> the help).
> You can reposition an object such as a piece of text on a spline using
> Spline_Trans from the standard include file 'transforms.inc'.
> This also allows you to reorient the object to the direction of the spline
> at that point.
>
> If you have a piece of text assigned to a string variable you can loop
> through using a #while loop to pick out one letter at a time using the
> strlen function to control the loop and the substr function to pick out
> successive letters. Then generate a text object for that character and
> reposition and reorient using Spline_Trans..
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Regards,
> Chris B

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