Text and 3D Effects


How to use your own font:

Text image can be easily imported.  To import a text image, draw or type the text to be scrolled using the desired font, the font can be draw or typed in any color.  Save the result image in a gif, jpg or (pc) bmp file. The image can be a mono colored one. Supply the 3D Scroll applet with following parameters:

<param name="frontImage" value="your fontImageFile">
<param name="frontImageIs" value="text">

The only requirement of the text image file is, it's upper left corner (pixel) should has the same color of the text image's background. If the text image is black and white, and fonts' color is black. Then the upper left corner should be white.

The applet distinguishes fonts and image's background by taking the image's upper left corner's color, compares it to the rest of the image. any point (pixel) that is not the same as the upper left corner's color will be treated as part of a font.  The applet will substitute every font pixel with the supplied TextColor. Apply 3D or other special effects if required.

Text Image and Apply 3D Effects contain examples

Here's some web sites which has free fonts or links to free fonts site:

Free True Type fonts for the Web
Shareware & Freeware Fonts

Tips:

Color sets for generating 3D font:

       See purchase.html .