POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Text Object Problems : Re: Text Object Problems Server Time
30 Jul 2024 14:21:52 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Text Object Problems  
From: ZuluNiner
Date: 13 May 1999 15:55:54
Message: <373b203a.0@news.povray.org>
That's what I ended up doing (before I got the response about the patched
POV version.)

It's just kind of frustrating that a feature I waited for  awhile doesn't
quite work right, you know.  Font definitions would just give MUCH smoother
edges than heightfields.

--
ZuluNiner
(aka Calin/Runesinger)
ZuluNiner at fuckyou dot co dot uk


Julius Klatte <jku### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
news:3739ef72.0@news.povray.org...
> Another thing you might try instead of a patch is to type
> your dingbat character in about 300pt or something, do a
> screen shot and save the image as a POV-heightfield
> compatible image like gif.
>
> The rest should speak for itself, but I'll tell it anyway.
> Make a heightfield object in pov and use the image of the
> character as a heightfield. Scale to fit with the other text
> (?)
>
> Might be worth a try
>
> Julius
>
> >I have a dingbat font that I'm trying to use to create an
> object (logo) in
> >an image, and although POV seems to work just fine with the
> majority of the
> >fonts on my system, there are a few that POV just can't
> seem to read.  (I
> >get boxes instead of the symbol I was expecting when using
> those fonts.)
>
>
>


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