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Re: GDI+ Font Rendering

by Cory Nelson :: Rate this Message:

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On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 6:36 AM, George <georgios_vlachakis@...> wrote:
> Here's another question for you guys,
>
> I read somewhere that GDI+ uses hardware accelerated font rendering (or
> something along those lines). If this is correct, is it also correct
> that switching to GDI+ font rendering (only) would give me a performance
> boost? I seem to have a bootleneck in my font rendering pipeline.
>

Windows 7 has a new API called Direct2D that renders text in hardware.
 As far as I know, no other version of Windows has acceleration other
than .NET apps using WPF.

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