I have just downloaded the latest Win32 build from povray.org
    Version 3.1g Watcom.win32 (Pentium II optimized)

Unfortunately the "text" feature seems to no longer work...

Using the following code...

light_source
{
  <5000, 5000, 5000>
  colour 1
}

camera
{
  location <0, -1, 1000>
  direction <8,0,0>
  up z
  right <0, -1.333, 0>
  sky z

  look_at <0, 0, 0>
}

text
{
 ttf "c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf"
 "abcABC12345"
 0.01
 0
 scale 20
 translate <-70, 0, 0>
 pigment {colour rgb<1, 1, 1> }
}

I get loads of unprintable characters and the following warnings...

Character 97 (0x61) not found in c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf
Character 99 (0x63) not found in c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf
Character 65 (0x41) not found in c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf
Character 67 (0x43) not found in c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf
Character 49 (0x31) not found in c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf
Character 50 (0x32) not found in c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf
Character 51 (0x33) not found in c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf
Character 52 (0x34) not found in c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf
Character 53 (0x35) not found in c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf

... Help!?
Rarius
rar### [at] globalnetcouk

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> text
> {
>  ttf "c:\windows\fonts\arial.ttf"
>  "abcABC12345"
>  0.01
>  0
>  scale 20
>  translate <-70, 0, 0>
>  pigment {colour rgb<1, 1, 1> }
> }
>
> I get loads of unprintable characters and the following warnings...

I think I ought to add that it doesnt seem to matter which font I use.. I
have checked arial.ttf in other programs and tried copying it to the local
directory...

I am using an AMD K6-2 300MHz, 128Mb, running win95 OSR2.

I'll try to confirm this tomorrow at work on another machine!

Rarius

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On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:26:49 +0100, "Rarius" <rar### [at] globalnetcouk> wrote:

>I have just downloaded the latest Win32 build from povray.org
>    Version 3.1g Watcom.win32 (Pentium II optimized)
>
>Unfortunately the "text" feature seems to no longer work...
>
No bug here! It renders perfectly on my 3.1g (the same version as yours).
Are you sure you have your fonts in the named directory?
David
------------
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http://www.hamiltonite.mcmail.com
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David Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:26:49 +0100, "Rarius" <rar### [at] globalnetcouk> wrote:
> 
> >I have just downloaded the latest Win32 build from povray.org
> >    Version 3.1g Watcom.win32 (Pentium II optimized)
> >
> >Unfortunately the "text" feature seems to no longer work...
> >
> No bug here! It renders perfectly on my 3.1g (the same version as yours).
> Are you sure you have your fonts in the named directory?
> David
> ------------
> dav### [at] cwcomnet
> http://www.hamiltonite.mcmail.com
> ------------

  I get the same positive results. It might be a corrupt font file. If it
were not there Pov would simply issue a warning "font file not found".

-- 
Ken Tyler

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This is a newsgroup for bug _reports_. This is NOT a newsgroup where
you can ask "is this a bug?".
  Again: If something doesn't work, then ask _first_ in povray.general,
povray.newusers or povray.advanced-users whether it really is a bug or not.
Then, and only then, if you are completely sure it is a bug, post a detailed
_report_ about the bug here.

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>  This is a newsgroup for bug _reports_. This is NOT a newsgroup where
>you can ask "is this a bug?".
>  Again: If something doesn't work, then ask _first_ in povray.general,
>povray.newusers or povray.advanced-users whether it really is a bug or not.
>Then, and only then, if you are completely sure it is a bug, post a
detailed
>_report_ about the bug here.


Apologies... I'll do just that in future... I was just abit miffed that code
that worked that morning with an earlier version of 3.1 suddenly stopped
working...

It works fine on my work PPro200 though!!!!

I'll continue searching....

Rarius

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