Importing/converting FONTS in maya

[ms4cah]

I have a .ttf font that maya won't recognize, it's there in the "create text" window, but just spits out generic text when I create it.

how do you import text/convert the format so maya will recognize it? I read the tips/tricks thread about this, but I'm on NT so the Unix command line won't work. something about converting fonts to .pba format.....?

thx in advance

[mckena]

I was having a similiar problem with fonts. Actually when I used different code page then then default US maya would created rectangles instead of letters, so I wrote the text in Corel converted to curves,then exported in DXF and imported in maya as curves.

Mckena, Rob Mckena (aldo liked to be Marvin more)

[heydiddlediddle]

Illustrator and the Invigorator plugin make a great little combo for this too.

[mckena]

invigorator ? is it available for NT ??
where to find it ?
thanks ?