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From: Merle Ilgenfritz <Merleiz@ids.net>
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Subject: Re: LW PC and TTFonts
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At 10:15 AM 3/18/96 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Hi, all...
>
>A friend and I were having a problem using TrueType fonts with LW Rev C
>on his Pentium (no, it's not the problem with "holes" not being cut out...)
>
>Bascially, we loaded up one of the Corel Draw fonts and typed the word
>MILLENIUM. That worked fine and happy -- Millenium showed up with all
>its polygons pointing forward.
>
>I extruded it, and all the polygons flipped inward! Strange... I flipped
>the polygons back, and then did my bevel of the front faces. Now some of
>the beveled polygons were flipped, but others weren't. Very odd...
>
>I finally got pissed off at it, re-entered the font, killed all the
>polygons (and out 2/3 of the extra points) and trace each letter to
>remake the polygons. Worked fine after that.
>
>Anyone else ever have something like this happen?
>
>-- Joe
Same thing happened to me when I did the same thing...you sure you know what