Ha! this was it.
Does this merit a doc addition??
"Mark Hanford" <ube### [at] blueyondercouk> wrote in message
news:3e96dc59@news.povray.org...
> 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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