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  Re: Tips for povray being able to read freeware fonts  
From: ABX
Date: 11 Apr 2003 09:58:47
Message: <dphd9v8ne94putd910p74qdhpdlaq37b1q@4ax.com>
On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 09:44:21 -0400, "Greg M. Johnson" <gregj:-)565### [at] aolcom>
wrote:
> 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.

Mapping between keyboard and objects in TTD file are not trivial and can be
influenced in many places (keybord driver, language settings, character set,
application customization). The fact that in some application after pressing key
"letter" character "LETTER" appear on screen doesn't mean that in TTF file
"letter" is coded as "LETTER". Font viewer? Have you verified this font in
charmap.exe (iirc included in every standard Windows installation)? 
Note, in charmap.exe can be selector for charset selection.

If this TTF will not work you can consider conversion from ttf vector format to
other vector format which can be later somehow imported into SDL as prism or
something.

ABX


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