As you can see, my name has a "special" character. The .TTFs offered 
with POV do not seem to contain characters with diacritical marks. I 
have tried to put in the "include" folder other fonts, but when I try to 

use them with POV they don't work and I get an error about "Invalid 
TrueType font headers".

Q1: Without diacritical characters, you can write only in Malay, 
Indonesian, Tagalog and Basic English. Is there a solution for French, 
German, Italian and Portuguese (for instance)?

Q2: How can I distinguish betweeen a TT font that is OK for POV and one 
that is not?


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<fde### [at] netscapenet>  wrote:

> Q2: How can I distinguish betweeen a TT font that is OK for POV and one
> that is not?

Well, the fonts you used are obviously no TrueType fonts as they do not even
contain a TrueType font header.  Not every font is a TrueType font.  So you
first need to locate TrueType fonts.  In Mac OS X these are unfortunately
mostly contained inside Mac OS X specific font container files (also every
version of Mac OS 9 and later can handle plain TrueType fonts just fine).
So you need a converter.  Right now I am not aware of any free one that
works with Mac OS X fonts and turns them into TrueType fonts.

Your best chance without using a converter is to force POV-Ray to start in
Mac OS 9. There it will automatically make all TrueType fonts in the
system's font folder available for use (just specify the font name).

    Thorsten

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