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5 Sep 2024 16:16:54 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Use of non "letter" true type fonts  
From: October
Date: 3 Mar 2001 15:54:04
Message: <3aa159ec$1@news.povray.org>
I've rendered plenty of wing dings and such.

The boxes are glyphs for non-defined fonts.  This can occur with a font set
that only has upper case defined and you try to use a lower case character,
for instance.

Jon

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"Pabs" <"pabs3"@ no spam thanx dot crosswinds.net> wrote in message
news:3a9deffd@news.povray.org...
> The \"D\" wrote:
>
> > POV uses the freetype libs?
>
> No silly :) sorry if I was confusing
>
> > Where could I get the freetype renderer plugin for the gimp?
>
> Comes with 1.2 for win32 & i'd imagine others as well
>
> > > BTW AFAIK those boxes are usually the glyph for characters that the
font
> > does
> > > not define.
> >
> > Right, except that the characters I am trying to use are defined for
that
> > font.
>
> What indicates this?
> --
> Bye,
> Pabs
>
>


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