[Chimera-users] POV-RAY tracing in Mac OSX (a workaround)

[Greg Couch]

You're running a chimera 1.3 release candiate.  Upgrade to the actual 
release and it will work without editing the POV-ray input files.

 	- Greg

On Wed, 20 May 2009, Miguel Ortiz Lombardia wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm almost sure that this problem has been reported here... but couldn't find 
> anything about it.
> When I try to ray-trace [Chimera 1.3 build 2572 (Darwin/aqua)] I consistently 
> get this error:
>
> File Context (5 lines):
> }
> object {
>  text {
>   ttf "verdana.ttf" "$" 0.01, 0
>   texture
> Parse Error: Cannot open font file.
>
> It appears even if I have no labels on the image.
> I managed to solve the problem but only when I asked for the povray 
> intermediate files not to be deleted and then manually edit them:
>
> A) image.ini file:
>
> I changed the line:
>
> Library_Path="/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/fonts/"
>
> to
>
> Library_Path="/Applications/Chimera.app/Contents/Resources/share/fonts/freefont/"
>
> B) image.pov file:
>
> All calls to verdana.ttf were changed to FreeSans.ttf
>
> It would be great if you point me to an easier solution or if you could make 
> such changes in the code.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Miguel
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