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New Text Stack in WPF 4

Posted: Oct 23, 2009 at 9:55 PM
By: Jaime Rodriguez
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Join Chipalo Street and Jaime Rodriguez to hear about the new text stack in WPF 4. With the new TextFormatingMode and TextRenderingMode options you are now in control of text and can produce sharp text.
They will also cover embedded bitmap support, bindable run, and custom dictionaries, and CAFE.

Related:
Comprehensive post covering this series and all new features in WPF 4 beta 2.

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vesuvius Count Orlock

Oct 27, 2009 at 11:15 AM

This is a definite improvement, but at text reading size, my Firefox menu looks just a bit better than the text in the WPF shell in dev 10. Obviously if you start zooming then WPF wins, but at text reading size, GDI is still better - by a whisker!

(I am a WPF develper by the way!)
sektor

Oct 30, 2009 at 5:43 AM

These are great improvements!

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