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28 Jul 2024 16:23:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: TrueType patch!  
From: Dylan Beattie
Date: 18 Dec 1997 12:56:12
Message: <349963BC.E19802C2@ecs.soton.ac.uk-NOSPAM>
Denis Olivier wrote:
> 
> Ken Cecka wrote:
> >
> >  The text object is the only one (to my knowledge) which does
> > not come prefit to a 1x1x1 cube, or require vectors to specify a size.  I
> > haven't looked at the code, so I don't know how difficult it would be, but
> > it seems to me that the text object would best be kept in the tradition of
> > other pov objects and automatically created in a 1x1x1 cube.
> 
> I totally agree.

Nice idea, but it be just as awkward scaling it from a 1 cube to 'true'
proportions as it is to take the current text and squash it into a cube.
What would be useful would be a function to return the extremes of a
given object, allowing you to scale/translate it accurately according to
the actual dimensions of the object, rather than by trial and error.

Dylan


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