May 2006 - Posts
One great new feature in WinFX / Windows Presentation Foundation (Avalon) is the ability to render true drop shadows using the DropShadowBitmapEffect class . What do I mean by true shadows? It's relatively straightforward to simply render text twice onto
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In my last post , I included the unverified claim, "I have heard (but I have not personally verified) that GDI font rendering is approximately 10x faster than GDI+ font rendering (1M glyphs / second vs. 100K glyphs / second). Of course, there is a reason
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After poking around the concepts of raster and vector images, I really wanted to dive a bit deeper into the most common form of vector image you will find today: fonts. Most of the fonts you run into today on a Windows system will be either True Type
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