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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trf de> wrote in message
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> In article <3a9ddb31@news.povray.org> , "The \"D\""
> <web### [at] bst hypermart net> wrote:
> Yes, but as you said you are using a Greek font. The ASCII table just
> defines Roman characters. While Greek may occupy the same "namespace"
> (or call it character code), they are still stored in a different table
> inside the font, and POV-Ray simply does not search this table.
I see. So that's how it works. I just assumed that the ascii values were the
same.
> In POV-Ray 3.5 you will have access to all 16 bit Unicode characters,
> however, even then just entering Greek characters in a text editor and
> using a Greek font won't work. There is no way for POV-Ray to know the
> intended font table you want to use, and adding every possible one (lets
> just say there are more than) is not possible. What you will have to
> do is use a Unicode export capable text editor (maybe CodeMax on Windows
> supports Unicode, but I don't know that) and save your scene files in a
> format called "UTF 8". Alternatively, and if you need only very few or
> very special characters, it is feasible to use one of the Unicode font
> mapping tables available at <http://www.unicode.org/charts/> and
> manually insert the hex codes, for example \u0394 for the Greek capital
> letter delta. But, as said, you will have to wait a few weeks (or more)
> for POV-Ray 3.5 ...
I'm definitely breathlessly awaiting 3.5 now. Now will 3.5 have isosurfaces,
or will I still have to get an unofficial patch to do that?
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The \"D\" wrote:
> Now will 3.5 have isosurfaces,
> or will I still have to get an unofficial patch to do that?
There will be isosurfaces in 3.5.
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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Use of non "letter" true type fonts
Date: 2 Mar 2001 09:27:44
Message: <3a9fade0@news.povray.org>
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In article <3a9f3456@news.povray.org> , "The \"D\""
<web### [at] bst hypermart net> wrote:
> I'm definitely breathlessly awaiting 3.5 now. Now will 3.5 have isosurfaces,
> or will I still have to get an unofficial patch to do that?
See
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From: "Chris Cason" <nospam@noemail>
Newsgroups: povray.announce.frequently-asked-questions
Subject: POV-Team Status Report - September 1, 2000
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 22:29:58 +1100
Thorsten
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Ken <tyl### [at] pacbell net> wrote in message
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> There will be isosurfaces in 3.5.
>
Yay! *tries very hard not to ask when it'll be out ^_~*
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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trf de> wrote in message
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> In article <3a9f3456@news.povray.org> , "The \"D\""
> <web### [at] bst hypermart net> wrote:
>
> > I'm definitely breathlessly awaiting 3.5 now. Now will 3.5 have
isosurfaces,
> > or will I still have to get an unofficial patch to do that?
>
> See
I had already, and since I couldn't remember if isosurfaces was on the list
off the top of my head I asked ^_^.
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I've rendered plenty of wing dings and such.
The boxes are glyphs for non-defined fonts. This can occur with a font set
that only has upper case defined and you try to use a lower case character,
for instance.
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"Pabs" <"pabs3"@ no spam thanx dot crosswinds.net> wrote in message
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> The \"D\" wrote:
>
> > POV uses the freetype libs?
>
> No silly :) sorry if I was confusing
>
> > Where could I get the freetype renderer plugin for the gimp?
>
> Comes with 1.2 for win32 & i'd imagine others as well
>
> > > BTW AFAIK those boxes are usually the glyph for characters that the
font
> > does
> > > not define.
> >
> > Right, except that the characters I am trying to use are defined for
that
> > font.
>
> What indicates this?
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> Bye,
> Pabs
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Pabs <"pabs3"@ no spam thanx dot crosswinds.net> wrote in message
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> The \"D\" wrote:
>
> Comes with 1.2 for win32 & i'd imagine others as well
I think that's the version I have, I'll check into it.
> > Right, except that the characters I am trying to use are defined for
that
> > font.
>
> What indicates this?
a)there is a character for every letter I used when I vew the font in the
windows font viewer b)I've used at least one of the fonts in a couple of
word processing programs c)I've used one of the fonts with out trouble in
breeze designer d)I've used on of the fonts to do stuff in ms-paint, psp3,
and I think possibly the win32 gimp. d)one of them I got off of an online
bible site, so I'm pretty sure that they would define all the letters for
the font (or at the very least the ones they use, and this being a greek
font...........)
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The \"D\" wrote:
> > What indicates this?
>
> a)there is a character for every letter I used when I vew the font in the
> windows font viewer b)I've used at least one of the fonts in a couple of
> word processing programs c)I've used one of the fonts with out trouble in
> breeze designer d)I've used on of the fonts to do stuff in ms-paint, psp3,
> and I think possibly the win32 gimp. d)one of them I got off of an online
> bible site, so I'm pretty sure that they would define all the letters for
> the font (or at the very least the ones they use, and this being a greek
> font...........)
Pretty convincing.
I do think you should make a backup of the font & muck around with the tables
in a font editor though or you could wait for 3.5 :).
Or you could render an anti-aliased image in psp/gimp & use it for a height
field.
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From: Thorsten Froehlich
Subject: Re: Use of non "letter" true type fonts
Date: 4 Mar 2001 22:22:38
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In article <3aa2e49a@news.povray.org> , "The \"D\""
<web### [at] bst hypermart net> wrote:
> a)there is a character for every letter I used when I vew the font in the
> windows font viewer b)I've used at least one of the fonts in a couple of
> word processing programs c)I've used one of the fonts with out trouble in
> breeze designer d)I've used on of the fonts to do stuff in ms-paint, psp3,
> and I think possibly the win32 gimp. e)one of them I got off of an online
> bible site, so I'm pretty sure that they would define all the letters for
> the font (or at the very least the ones they use, and this being a greek
> font...........)
All this is irelevant to determine if the font is usable in POV-Ray 3.1.
a) POV-Ray does not use any Windows code to get the font data.
b) These programs use Windows to draw the font, so see a).
c) Breeze Designer is platform specific, so it knows that it is dealing
with Windows fonts.
d) All three use Windows to draw the font, see c) and a).
e) As said in a previous post, that the font contains certain characters
in a certain mapping does not say POV-Ray can or will use this mapping
when searching for a character.
Thorsten
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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trf de> wrote in message
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> In article <3aa2e49a@news.povray.org> , "The \"D\""
> <web### [at] bst hypermart net> wrote:
> All this is irelevant to determine if the font is usable in POV-Ray 3.1.
Right, I figured that, I was just stating evidince that the character was
defined at said point.
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