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29 Sep 2024 23:24:58 EDT (-0400)
  Re: semi OT: convert a ttf to a prism.  
From: Warp
Date: 22 Jan 2009 15:25:19
Message: <4978d62e@news.povray.org>
Shay <sha### [at] nonenone> wrote:
> I am having some decals made for my bike. Right now, the images consist 
> of POV-Ray bezier spline prisms and a ttf I purchased. The former can be 
> translated easily enough to a vector format, but I'm not sure about the 
> latter. I'd hate to have to open each letter in font forge and manually 
> extract the geometry information.

> Is there a better way?

  Use the text primitive? It does precisely what you want: Create a prism
using the given ttf file, with the given text characters.

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                                                          - Warp


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