On Thu, 18 Dec 1997 17:56:12 +0000, Dylan Beattie
<dmb### [at] ecssotonacuk-NOSPAM> wrote:

>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.

I knew I had seen this posted somewhere; that's why I went and wrote
it.  I just couldn't find it back when I needed it.  

Ahem.  For all those who agree with Mr. Beattie, your prayers are
answered.  You can find just the patch you need over in
povray.binaries.utilities or on my web page at
http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html  

A C compiler and POV sources are required. I'll make a Win32 compiled
version available if there's enough interest (in email, please.)

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