I'm not sure if this is a silly suggestion or not, but I had this problem
once, and fixed it by including a charset directive in the global_settings
block

global_settings {
    charset utf8
}

Mark Hanford
www.hanfordonline.co.uk/povray

"Greg M. Johnson" <gregj:-)565### [at] aolcom> wrote in message
news:3e96c6d9$1@news.povray.org...
> Povray treats the object as if it were a rectangle when used in an object
> pattern, which I believe is also what it will do if one types in a
ficitious
> FAKE.TTF filename.  It's the kind of rectangle you get when you look at
the
> font viewer for characters not supported.  I suppose I can get some bitmap
> and code examples together much later.
>
>
>
> "ABX" <abx### [at] abxartpl> wrote in message
> news:dcnc9vkfncav6dmsak4au9241olkc2q979@4ax.com...
> > On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 22:52:53 -0700, "Greg M. Johnson"
> <gregj;-)565### [at] aolcom>
> > wrote:
> > > I just downloaded four freeware fonts (.ttf) off the internet and was
> not
> > > able to get povray to use any of them as a text object, whereas the
code
> has
> > > worked fine for other fonts, some freeware, definitely also
timrom.ttf.
> >
> > What you mean in "was not able"?
> > Error? Not expected appearance of rendering? Crash?
> >
> > ABX
>
>

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