POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Divide by zero errors : Re: Divide by zero errors Server Time
28 Jul 2024 22:16:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Divide by zero errors  
From: Stephen Lavedas
Date: 17 Aug 1998 13:22:20
Message: <35D8585B.51578AEB@ragingbull.com>
I don't know about everyone else, but when my installer went to install
the BorTE font on two separate computers, it said the font was in use
and couldn't be installed... I chose ignore... 

Stephen Lavedas

povray.org admin team wrote:
> 
> There have been a rash of reports of 'Edit: Divide By Zero Errors' from users
> with POVWIN 3.1 beta 5. The strange thing about this is that it also seems to
> affect older versions of POVWIN (e.g. 3.02), even though the two versions share
> no code or DLL's etc. This editor code has been in use for more than two years
> and has not had any major stability problems on Windows 95 or NT before now.
> 
> One user has reported that the problem seemed to relate to font settings. We
> tend to think that this is a very strong possibility - the two versions DO
> share a font.
> 
> If anyone is getting this (especially if it persists after a reboot), please
> check the validity of the font 'BorTE' on your system. It should have been
> installed by the setup program. Even if it looks OK, try temporarily deleting
> it (take a backup first). Then run POVWIN again, and see if it makes any
> difference.


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