avranju

Wow, I didn't know that GDI+ had stability issues. Interesting! And yes, text rendering does look quite good on Windows 7. I was interested in XP because OS upgrades happen a tad more slowly at work. Wonder if these GDI+ stability problems persist in WPF on XP. But then they probably don't use GDI+ for anything. Thanks for the response!

Thanks for that tip about dpy's plug-in. Interestingly, when I used one of the text tools that come with the plugin here's the result I got. Looks like it is only Paint.NET's native text rendering that needs tweaking or perhaps it depends on some system setting or some such that needs to be setup right. -- Ranju. V http://blogorama.nerdworks.in/ --

Hi, I think I am missing something with rendering text on XP using Paint.NET in version 3.5.5 because it appears quite jagged and low quality to me even with anti-aliasing on. It is a little strange because I remember that it used to work great in older versions. I have a machine which has 3.36 on it and here's some text rendered using that version with Arial font at size 18 and font weight bold: And here's the same image created using Paint.NET 3.5.5 with the same font settings: Clearly the 3.36 output seems to be smoother. Is there some setting I need to fiddle with in 3.5.5 to get the same quality on XP? Thanks! -- Ranju. V http://blogorama.nerdworks.in/ --