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| Anti-Aliased GDI Text Submitted by

Here is a little trick to show antialiased text with GDI functions.
The code:

    // use LOGFONT structure to add a font.
    LOGFONT lfont;
    lfont.lfHeight = 55;
    lfont.lfWidth = 0;
    lfont.lfEscapement = 0;
    lfont.lfOrientation = 0;
    lfont.lfWeight = FW_BOLD;
    lfont.lfItalic = 0;
    lfont.lfUnderline = 0;
    lfont.lfStrikeOut = 0;
    lfont.lfCharSet = ANSI_CHARSET;
    lfont.lfOutPrecision = OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS;
    lfont.lfClipPrecision = CLIP_DEFAULT_PRECIS;
    // lfQuality Specifies the output quality. Use ANTIALIASED_QUALITY!
    lfont.lfQuality = ANTIALIASED_QUALITY;
    lfont.lfPitchAndFamily = VARIABLE_PITCH | FF_ROMAN;
    lstrcpy(lfont.lfFaceName,"Arial");
    HFONT oldfont, hfont_antialias = CreateFontIndirect(&lfont);
    oldfont = (HFONT)SelectObject(hdc, hfont_antialias);
    TextOut(hdc, 100, 100, "This is an antialiased text", 27);
    //.... and so on ....

I thought I have to code my own antialiasing engine but somtimes it's more simply than one thinks.
CU.
Thomas Gorski

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