Adding a string to GraphicsPath and drawing the GraphicsPath reduce the quality of the drawn string?

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The method DrawString() gives out a very nice result, the text/string is drawn clearly as you type it into a textbox. However I tried another way (a by-way) but it showed a bad appearance. I need to do this way because I want to apply some transformations to the string first (such as rotating). The way I did is creating a GraphicsPath, using AddString() method to add some string to that GraphicsPath, then using DrawPath() to draw that string. The drawn string looked very ugly (I didn't specify a bold font but it seemed to be affected by bold style, the string was like as blurred, ... it was really not what I want.

Do you know any options to change for this to work better (like DrawString() can do)?

Thank you!

VipHaLong.

Posted 17-Mar-13 17:56pm

supernorb

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-03-17T18:53:00

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You don't really need to represent a string as a graphic path for proper transform. Transformations are done using System.Drawing.Graphics.Transform:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.graphics.transform.aspx[^],
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.drawing2d.matrix.aspx[^].

—SA

Posted 17-Mar-13 18:53pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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supernorb 18-Mar-13 4:52am

Thank you, I have known of this before but really don't know why I could overlook it. Thanks.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 18-Mar-13 10:09am

You are welcome,
—SA