Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <3c304eaf@news.povray.org> , "Felix Wiemann" 
> <Fel### [at] gmxnet> wrote:
> 
> 
>>But the left part of the letter "P" is cut of. It seems to be a
>>bounding problem.
>>
> 
> You may want to check if the font comes with correct bounds for its
> charaters in a font editor.


As mentioned in my other post, this happens with other fonts as well.  I 
dont think it is dues to the bounding of the font itself as the problem 
is in the Z direction.  Testing with a modified scene shows that the 
problem is that the text isn't "straight".  See image in p.b-t.b.

#include "colors.inc"
camera{
     location < 10, 15, -20 >
     look_at < 10, 0 0 >
     }
plane{
     y, 0
     pigment{ White }
     }
union{
     box{
         < -5, -1, 0 > < 25, 20, 20 >
         pigment{ Gray50 }
         }
     text{
         ttf "timrom" "POV" 0.1 0
         scale < 10, 10, 100000 >
         pigment{ Red }
         }
     }
light_source{
     < -15, 50, -15 >
     White
     }



-- 
/*Francois Labreque*/#local a=x+y;#local b=x+a;#local c=a+b;#macro P(F//
/*    flabreque    */L)polygon{5,F,F+z,L+z,L,F pigment{rgb 9}}#end union
/*        @        */{P(0,a)P(a,b)P(b,c)P(2*a,2*b)P(2*b,b+c)P(b+c,<2,3>)
/*   videotron.ca  */}camera{location<6,1.25,-6>look_at a orthographic}

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