Effects
Once you've loaded a bitmap font,
you can apply various effects and display it in new, exciting ways.
This page demonstrates outlining, texturing, blurring, embossing,
dissolving, and coloring.
You can select a different font. Enter text into the field and hit return
to modify the text string.
The blurring convolution is a bit slow, so be patient.
The source is here.
Back to my Java PCFFont class page.
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