http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/04/13/directwrite-questions-and-answers.aspxHi, my name is Mikhail Leonov, and I’m a Senior Software Development Engineer on the DirectWrite team at Microsoft. I would like to address common user feedback on DirectWrite in a relatively informal ‘simple question – simple answer’ format. Feedbacken-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/04/13/directwrite-questions-and-answers.aspx#9549167Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:45:07 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9549167Ruben<p>No XP Support = Yet another API people won't be using.</p> <p>I am curious though. It has been stated that .NET 4.0 will run on XP, as will Visual Studio 2010. (IIRC) And that WPF vNext will use DirectWrite. That means that either a) XP will get DirectWrite support, b) MS will only ship a private DirectWrite version for WPF usage only, or c) WPF on XP will use the old 3.0 rendering and still look like crap and won't be compatible with WPF on Vista/7. (Or d) bye bye WPF on XP.)</p> <p>Mind you, Silverlight could use DirectWrite as well: its font rendering looks even worse than grid fitted GDI+. And that's quite a feat!</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/04/13/directwrite-questions-and-answers.aspx#9916627Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:12:17 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9916627Dmitri<p>Hi, I'm trying to render multi-line text, but all my calls to SetLineHeight() in either the TextFormat or TextLayout objects get ignored, with no changes regardless of parameters. Can you help me? I really need to change line spacing.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/04/13/directwrite-questions-and-answers.aspx#9921026Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:19:24 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9921026Brandon<p>DirectWrite is looking pretty powerful, but I've been wondering how reading in and writing out from a file will work, or how communication to a managed layer will work.</p> <p>Is there going to be anything like being able to pass around, read in, write out a formated string of sorts? perhaps a rich text formatted string?</p> <p>If not, what approach do you think developers should take to be able to read in/write out the information?</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/text/archive/2009/04/13/directwrite-questions-and-answers.aspx#9921486Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:58:47 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:9921486text<p>Brandon - The DWrite team has expanded to their own blog. You can get in contact with them at <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/DirectX/">http://blogs.msdn.com/DirectX/</a></p>