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Looked at the bicubic patch file you uploaded (the letter a)… intriguing idea, and it scales wonderfully. I imagine an alphabet of letters made of patches would render relatively slowly, but they sure look good. [esp] Read action !
I just like to cut corners, and if there is already a built-in scalable font technology in the operating system (free), why pay for an extension from a 3rd party to "retrofit" their scalable font technology into the Mac? 🙂 I'm mostly playing devil's advocate, since ATM only costs $7.50…
No word from Drew in weeks, Spring is here, so I know he isn't hibernating… Read action !
Great, I'll watch for it. I got the TrueType Mac sample source code and article text, about 51K as a Compactor Pro archive. So why do you prefer Type 1, since it is not native on the Mac, and not an openly published format? There is 1 Reply. Read action…
> Is there any possibility to include a new trace mode into POV 2.0? > To be more precise, a wireframe mode, so that our debugging times > can be reduced enormously? Sorry, the "Quality" command line parameter only goes down to zero. So, for a wireframe "zippy" mode, we'd…
Definitely! 2 votes for Anton (My wife voted for you too!) 🙂 Hey Drew, wake up and read the backlog! 🙂 [esp] Read action !
Apple Computer (APDA catalog) published a TrueType specification document for $20 or so… and they also had an article in a recent magazine that talked about "walking the vectors" to make a bunch of curves and line segments for later drawing/stretching. it had great explanations and lots of C source…
Anton, > You want to include it for saving PICT's and stuff? Can you also include > a very tiny window in v2.0 telling the user how many lines he has traced, > and how many more to do before completing the picture. Yup, 2.0 will do optional QT compression…
Hi Britt, Hopefully we'll hear from Drew about your beta status. Yes, it is easy for me to recompile POV-Ray so as not to require an FPU. But I wouldn't want to post it on a public CIS forum area, because others would download it and get confused by its…
Yup, there's a whole tutorial article in a recent Apple Computer Developer Magazine/CDROM about it, the guy wrote some code to read the character outline and display it. It relies on some Mac built-in Toolbox (sorta like BIOS ROM) calls to display lines, but should give you lots to go…
Oh yeah, RTrace! I have RTrace (8.0?) kicking around on a Syquest cartridge someplace… checking… I don't see the source, just the Mac app and the scenes. I'll have to get my buddy to snoop around the internet and find it (or maybe the Mac source is on CIS?) There…
I keep dreaming that I'll wake up one morning, and POV-Ray will have simple built-in typeface support for TrueType. Alas, it always turns out to be an empty dream, usually spurred by staying up till 3 AM working on getting OTHER new features into POV-Ray 2.0. This is a much…
Well, it turns out that beginners are just the people we want to test our software on. They do the craziest things with it, and always find the most bugs. And, we want our software to be easy for beginners to run. So I think you would be a good…
Hi Anton, Drew would be the one to talk to abou getting you set up. A Centris? Great, we need to pipe the Mac code through a 68040 with CPU cache, and make sure its tailfeathers don't get burned off! Anyway, send Drew a personal e-mail, and he should be…
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Message #20407
Software FPU no workee? The only other option is to recompile POV-Ray without the FPU requirement. In order to reduce software litter and confusion, the POV-Team has adopted a policy of "ONLY ONE SANCTIONED EXECUTABLE." But since we also provide source, any user is free to recompile their own version…