I've been using POV on a dual-boot NT/95 machine and have also noticed
POV won't open fonts that are associated with the "inactive" OS.  In
other words, if I'm working under NT only the fonts in the
"C:\WinNT\Fonts" folder are available and the ones in "C:\Windows\Fonts"
can't be used.

Ken wrote:

> Don Juan wrote:
>
> > I understand from the documentation that Pov-ray now allows any true
>
> > type font to be used, and I've tried several now...ex "hippo.ttf"..
> The
> > renderer always returns "Can't open font file" message. Is POV not
> > looking in the right place, and if so can I make it do so?
> > Thanks.
>
>   Try ading a path to your font files e.g.
>
> ttf "c:\windows\fonts\font.ttf"
>
> Pov doesn't use the available paths the way windows does.
> You could also add a library path statement to povray.ini
> similar to the above.
>
> Ken Tyler

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