Some povray files that used to work under 3.1 generate this warning
under 3.5.

"Warning:  Text may not be displayed as expected."

and a reference to changes in 3.5.  But I couldn't figure out which
of the changes listed was responsible.  Here is an example a text
construct which elicits such a warning (this may wrap):

   text{ttf "timrom.ttf", "TYR86 OH",0.0,0.0
     texture{ pigment{ colour red 1.00 green 1.00 blue 1.00 }finish{ LABEL_FINISH }}
     scale<   2.355,   2.355,   2.355>
     translate <   1.178,  -1.178,0>
     matrix <
        1.0000,    0.0000,    0.0000,
        0.0000,    1.0000,    0.0000,
        0.0000,    0.0000,    1.0000,
       -4.6193,  -23.1005,    6.4401
     >
   }

where LABEL_FINISH was declared far above with:

#declare LABEL_FINISH = finish {specular 1 roughness 0.001} ;

Please enlighten me - which part of this is triggering the warning?

Thanks,

David Mathog
mat### [at] caltechedu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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In article <200### [at] caltechedu> , David Mathog 
<mat### [at] caltechedu>  wrote:

> Please enlighten me - which part of this is triggering the warning?

You set a version lower than 3.5 in your scene.

    Thorsten

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Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 21:52:19 +0100
"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

> In article <200### [at] caltechedu> , David Mathog 
> <mat### [at] caltechedu>  wrote:
> 
> > Please enlighten me - which part of this is triggering the warning?
> 
> You set a version lower than 3.5 in your scene.
> 

Huh?

Are you saying that text statements will trigger that warning
whenever version is set to 3.1?   Ok, but presumably there must then
be some cases where text statements render differently in 3.5 than they
did in 3.1.  What are these cases???

We have to set version=3.1 because most of the povray script comes
from a program I cannot modify (distributed as binaries) which emits
code for that version. 

Thanks

David Mathog
mat### [at] caltechedu
Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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In article <200### [at] caltechedu> , David Mathog 
<mat### [at] caltechedu>  wrote:

> Are you saying that text statements will trigger that warning
> whenever version is set to 3.1?   Ok, but presumably there must then
> be some cases where text statements render differently in 3.5 than they
> did in 3.1.  What are these cases???

If you use non-ASCII charcaters or non-text fonts.

    Thorsten

____________________________________________________
Thorsten Froehlich, Duisburg, Germany
e-mail: tho### [at] trfde

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