I'm creating a new bitmap, and getting the graphics object off that.
I have noticed that if you load a .gif into your bitmap, and then drawstring on top of that you get much better results.
Anyone know how I can get smooth text without loading a gif first?
thanks
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(ImgWidth, ImgHeight);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp);
g.SmoothingMode = System.Drawing.Drawing2D.SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;
g.DrawString("x100", myFont, fontPen.Brush, GraphicMargin, GraphicMargin);
pictureBox1.Image = bmp;
and here is a screen capture, and magnification, of what it looks like:
http://www.ol0lo.com/drawString.html
not sure if that'll do it for you, but antialias is for smoothing out edges and what not and with text, it's usually better to have hard edges
Graphics g;
g.TextRenderingHint = System.Drawing.Text.TextRenderingHint.ClearTypeGridFit
there's also an AntiAlias and a few others...but that might be one way to help.
Hope that helps some..
-Randy
When creating the Bitmap I was specifying the PixelFormat to be PixelFormat.Format32bppPArgb
And when viewing the output via the DrawString() itlooked very similar to your output. I then noticed that my notebook's video card didn't support a color depth of 32bpp. So I changed the PixelFormat to PixelFormat.Format24bppRgb (which my video card supports) and everything looks great.
So try changing
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(ImgWidth, ImgHeight); -->
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(ImgWidth, ImgHeight, PixelFormat.[Whatever Color Depth you Video Card Supports]);
BTW, does anybody know how to get the Color Depth the system is set to?
Good Luck
Chris
But when it comes to determining information about your hardware, if you can't find it in the .NET Framework, your next step is to look in WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), handled by the System.Management namespace. Here's code you can use to retrieve the color depth of all installed video controllers:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
Dim mc As New ManagementClass("Win32_VideoController")
Dim mo As ManagementObject
For Each mo In mc.GetInstances()
Debug.WriteLine(mo("CurrentBitsPerPixel"))
Next
End Sub
You'll need to set a reference to the System.Management assembly, and I added
Imports System.Management
to the top of my module. There may be an easier solution, but this worked for me. You'll be amazed at what's available through WMI, if you need stuff that's not in the .NET Framework explicitly.
thanx for that piece of code! I was always amazed by what WMI could do and amazed how extremely not documented and not intuitive WMI was, but then again I haven't messed with it much in .NET, maybe it's easier and I should shut my mouth...thanx again for the code :)
