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TextRenderer.DrawText in Bitmap vs OnPaintBackground

If I use TextRenderer.DrawText() using the Graphics object provided in the OnPaintBackground my text looks perfect. If I create my own Bitmap and use the Graphics object obtained from my Bitmap my text looks terrible. It looks like it is…
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Text rendering still blurry : Best font for WPF application?

I know this is a very subjective question but as text rendering in WPF is still an issue I have to make the best out of it. In WPF Application text tend to become blurry that is no secret. Also there are countless website about this topic and how…
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Why doesn't TextRenderer.MeasureText work properly?

I want to measure the height of the text given a certain width of available canvas. The text that I pass in is really long and I know will wrap. To that end, I call the following: using System.Windows.Forms; ... string text = "Really really long…
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TextRenderer.DrawText renders Arial differently on XP vs Vista

I have a c# application that does text rendering, something on par with a simple wysiwyg text editor. I'm using TextRenderer.DrawText to render the text to the screen and GetTextExtentPoint32 to measure text so I can position different font…
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TextRenderer.DrawText using GDI to render OTF Fonts?

I'm trying to draw text over a bitmap image and I've done some research and found that .NET/GDI+ doesn't support OTF fonts. I read somewhere that you could use TextRenderer.DrawText to render OTF fonts with GDI, but I can't seem to figure out how,…
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Accuracy of TextRenderer.MeasureText results

Calling TextRenderer.MeasureText as follows: TextRenderer.MeasureText(myControl.Text, myControl.Font); and comparing the result to the size of the control to check if text fits. The results are sometimes incorrect. Have observed the following two…
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Accurately measuring, rendering, hit testing and printing text in a WinForms application

We need to: Measure text accurately. Render text line by line to a screen graphics context in the presence of translation and scaling transforms applied to the graphics context. Hit testing: allow text to be selected precisely with the mouse or via…
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How to wrap long word with TextRenderer DrawText in vb.net

How can I draw a long word on a form with word breaking using TextRenderer DrawText() in vb.net? I thought it's a simple question and I tried all TextFormatFlags combinations but I can't find nothing solution. Can anyone help? Here is a sample:…
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Possible bug with Graphics.DrawString and TextRenderingHint in .Net Winforms

Here's the OnPaint method of a control that simply inherits from control and provides a property to get/set the textrenderinghint: Private _mode as TextRenderingHint = SystemDefault. Public Property Mode as TextRenderingHint Get & Set _mode …
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TextRenderer.MeasureText() and textbox maximum text length

I have a long string (~100k characters). I need to know the length for this string. I call Size s = TextRenderer.MeasureText(graphics, text, font); But it returns width equals 7. Only if text length <= 43679 it returns correct value! Also, if I…
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LinkLabel needing more space than TextRenderer.MeasureText says

If I give TextRenderer.MeasureText some text to measure and width to use it will return the height needed to display that text. private static int CalculateHeight(string text, Font font, int width) { Size size = TextRenderer.MeasureText(text,…
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Use DrawText to draw end of a text

Is TextRenderer.DrawText() capable to draw the end of a text when destination rectangle is too small? TextFormatFlags.Bottom didn't helped me. In others words: how to clip text on its top edge?
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TextRenderer.MeasureText return Width=0 for character "&"

All is in the title. I try to create my own OpenGL font system, and I need to get the size of each character I want to include in a Sprite texture. All works well and accurately, except for the character "&" (ascii 38). Even if I change the font,…
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Rotating text using Textrenderer

Hey, I'd like to display text in a 2D szenario using JOGL. But I can't figure out, how to rotate text using com.sun.opengl.util.j2d.TextRenderer. It does not have any methods concerning the rotation. So I was expecting the modelview matrix to have…
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How is the LOGFONT quality value set for the TextRenderer

HELP! I'm working on a C# web app where I am drawing on to a bit map. There are two ways to draw text: 1. Graphics.DrawString 2. TextRenderer.DrawText According to the internet TextRenderer is the "newer way" but there are times where it looks worse…
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