On closer inspection, it seems that Elefont's povray output uses a triangle
mesh.

With Elefont's maximum curve subdivision setting, this looks OK for smaller
rendered images, but even for TV screen sized images (720x480) you can see the
joins in the facets around the extruded faces. For large format images I don't
think this is good enough.

I seem to recall many years ago using Moray. Bezier curves "drawn" and extruded
in Moray were output with extruded faces as "smooth_triangle" which gave lovely
smooth faces with no seams at all because the triangles had surface normals at
each apex.

Moray or other GUI front ends have probably come a long way over the years. Are
there any that can import shapes from truetype or windows metafile (or any
other vector based file), and export to POV as SMOOTH triangles where
necessary?

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