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- POVRAY 3.0 Compiled QUAD Fat for NEXTSTEP
- -----------------------------------------
-
- This archive contains a full BINARY release of POVRAY 3.0 for use with
- NEXTSTEP/OpenStep. It has not been tested with anything but NS 3.3.
- Do not redistribute without reading the licensing agreement.
-
- PRINTING THE MANUAL
- -------------------
-
- The manual is awesome; it is well written, contains lots of
- illustrations, has an excellent tutorial followed by an excellent
- technical reference. It is 406 pages long. To save on paper, do:
-
- gzip -d -c < povdoc.ps.gz | psnup -G | open
-
- This will open the psnup'd output in Preview... as long as your eyes
- are pretty good, the final printed output is quite readable and you
- will save a bunch of paper.
-
- The manual is formatted for output in book form; so if you have a
- double-sided printer, definitely do use it.
-
- INSTALLING THE PACKAGE
- ----------------------
-
- 1) Unarchive the distribution (this will result in a directory tree
- rooted at 'povray3/' that contains everything needed to run
- POVRAY; including initialization files, the binary, and full
- documentation.
-
- 2) Copy the povray3 directory to some common library directory; both
- /usr/local/lib/ and /LocalDeveloper/lib are likely candidates.
-
- 3) Copy the povray3/povray quad-fat binary to a bin directory that is
- in your PATH. /usr/local/bin/ is a good place.
-
- 4) Copy the povray3/povray.1 man page to a standard man directory;
- /usr/local/man/man1/ is appropriate. Within the povray3
- directory, a postscript version of the man page is available
- as povray3/povray.1.ps.
-
- 5) Copy the povray3/dot-povrayrc file to ~/.povrayrc. This file
- supplies the basic configuration to the povray rendering
- engine whenever a scene is rendered. All of the options in
- the file can be overridden on the command line. Open the
- file and modify it as appropriate.
-
- Most notably, you may want to change the output file format.
- It is set to PNG within the configuration file, but without a
- PNG viewer, the extremely high quality of a PNG file will not
- do you much good.
-
- 6) Copy some of the sample scenes from the povray3/ hierarchy into
- some useful place and render a few test scenes.
-
- That's it!
-
- ----
-
- I have written an image viewer that can view PNG files in their full,
- stunning, with-transparency glory. It will be made available shortly.
-
- If you have any questions or problems, please send email to:
-
- <bbum@friday.com>
-
- enjoy.
- b.bum
-
-