Hi all,

When rendering some text using a True Type Font called Metrostyle in Povray
3.5, it renders strange characters (i.e. "Hello" becomes "$66#")

My code snippet is below

Any help greatly appreciated

Reuben
reu### [at] pearsecouk
============================
  #include "colors.inc"
  background{LightSteelBlue}
  camera {
    angle 60
    location <0,0,-10>
    look_at <0,0,0>
  }
  light_source { <20, 50, -100> color White}
  light_source { <0, 0, 0> color White}

// Stick text in middle of image
//----------------------------- 
      text { ttf "metr75.ttf" "Hello" 0.3, 0
      pigment { GreenCopper }
      finish { reflection 0.1 specular 1 }
      translate -3*x
      translate -0.2*y
      translate -1.5 *z
      scale 0.8*y
      scale 0.8*x
      no_shadow
    }
//----------------------------- 
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"Reuben Pearse" <reu### [at] pearsecouk> wrote in message
news:3f44f1b1$1@news.povray.org...
> Hi all,
>
> When rendering some text using a True Type Font called Metrostyle in
Povray
> 3.5, it renders strange characters (i.e. "Hello" becomes "$66#")
>

If TTF were HTML, then Pov would be Opera - it's fairly unforgiving of TTF
file-format-errors.

Sorry for not offering anything more helpful, but your post was looking
lonely.

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Wasn't it Reuben Pearse who wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>When rendering some text using a True Type Font called Metrostyle in Povray
>3.5, it renders strange characters (i.e. "Hello" becomes "$66#")

I don't have metr75.ttf, but I do have Metrostyle Extended Font
metr53.ttf which exhibits the same problem.

I think that "Extended" bit is to do with the fact that it's a unicode
font, and you have to tell POVRay to use a unicode charset instead of
ascii when using such a font. Like this:

global_settings {
  charset utf8
}

-- 
Mike Williams
Gentleman of Leisure

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That's done the trick! You are a superstar!

Thanks

"Mike Williams" <mik### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote in message
news:lURFLCA8ZSR$EwJV@econym.demon.co.uk...
> Wasn't it Reuben Pearse who wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >When rendering some text using a True Type Font called Metrostyle in
Povray
> >3.5, it renders strange characters (i.e. "Hello" becomes "$66#")
>
> I don't have metr75.ttf, but I do have Metrostyle Extended Font
> metr53.ttf which exhibits the same problem.
>
> I think that "Extended" bit is to do with the fact that it's a unicode
> font, and you have to tell POVRay to use a unicode charset instead of
> ascii when using such a font. Like this:
>
> global_settings {
>   charset utf8
> }
>
> -- 
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure

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