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:
Make sure none font points in the text image has the same color as image's background and the background only contains one color. If possible, enlarge the font image and check carefully. Some times, software paint the background with a pattern instead of one solid color as required. In that case, change the background color to a simple one. Like black, red, green, blue or white. Since 3D Scroll will substitute the font points with your supplied TextColor and make background transparent, it really doesn't matter what background color the text image has.
Leave addition room (between fonts, usually 2-3 more pixels) for the applet to apply 3D effect.
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