POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.macintosh : Text function and TTF fonts : Re: Text function and TTF fonts Server Time
27 Apr 2024 05:49:56 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Text function and TTF fonts  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 7 Mar 2003 14:47:53
Message: <3e68f769@news.povray.org>

<fde### [at] netscapenet>  wrote:

> Q2: How can I distinguish betweeen a TT font that is OK for POV and one
> that is not?

Well, the fonts you used are obviously no TrueType fonts as they do not even
contain a TrueType font header.  Not every font is a TrueType font.  So you
first need to locate TrueType fonts.  In Mac OS X these are unfortunately
mostly contained inside Mac OS X specific font container files (also every
version of Mac OS 9 and later can handle plain TrueType fonts just fine).
So you need a converter.  Right now I am not aware of any free one that
works with Mac OS X fonts and turns them into TrueType fonts.

Your best chance without using a converter is to force POV-Ray to start in
Mac OS 9. There it will automatically make all TrueType fonts in the
system's font folder available for use (just specify the font name).

    Thorsten

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e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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