14. A system for mapping two-dimensional text properties to three-dimensional text, comprising: a processor and a computer-readable medium; an operating environment stored on the computer-readable medium and executing on the processor; a display; an application operating under the control of the operating environment and operative to display text having three-dimensional properties; and a text effects manager that is configured to: capture two-dimensional text properties from two-dimensional text by creating a picture of the two-dimensional text; wherein the picture is a two-dimensional picture of each character of the two-dimensional text that captures a look of text properties of the two-dimensional text; and apply the picture to a three-dimensional model of the three-dimensional text such that each character of the three-dimensional text is associated with the picture of each associated character within the at least one picture and that when the model is displayed by the application the three-dimensional text shows the captured two-dimensional text properties displayed as the picture that is applied to the three-dimensional model.
15. The system of claim 14 , wherein creating the picture comprises creating a different picture for each character included in the two-dimensional text.