POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : TrueType Font problem : Re: TrueType Font problem Server Time
30 Jul 2024 16:23:10 EDT (-0400)
  Re: TrueType Font problem  
From: Jim Foster
Date: 18 Oct 2001 15:52:34
Message: <3bcf3302$1@news.povray.org>
BINGO!  That fixed it.
Thanks
Jim

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
news:3bcf0a12@news.povray.org...
> In article <3bcf02f0$1@news.povray.org> , "Jim Foster"
> <pov### [at] fiberbitscom> wrote:
>
> > I am using Windows 2000 and POV-Ray 3.5 beta 6.
> >
> > I have a font that I purchased from P22
> > (http://www.p22.com/products/flw.html).  I have not had a problem with
this
> > font with any other application, but POV-Ray renders the wrong
characters!
> > Most are empty boxes, some are normal, but incorrect glyphs.  I have
also
> > tried this font with 3.1g and I get the message "error: Can't open font
> > file.".  If I use Moray for Windows 3.3 and POV-Ray 3.1g, Moray shows
the
> > correct wire frame of the text but when I render it, I get the same
results
> > as 3.5 (no error message this time).
> >
> > Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong.
>
> Try using "utf8" instead of the default "ascii" character mapping:  For
more
> information, read about the "charset" option in the global_settings block.
>
>     Thorsten


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