Re: Text Proposal

Chris Marrin ([email protected])
Tue, 25 Apr 1995 14:22:49 -0700

> > I have not included an annotation flag. I think this is an important
> > issue but it would be a mistake to overload the functionality of this
node
> > with annotation.
>
> Is it that it makes the node too complex, or that the existing Inventor
> node doesn't handle annotation text? Somehow it doesn't seem to me that
> adding one boolean to the node overloads it too much. However, leaving
it
> off of the spec. hampers text usage for a lot of serious applications.

My concern is overloading of functionality. Annotation text would behave
much differently than 3D text. I'm not against annotation at all, I'd
just like to separate it from this text node.

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