HannesBK Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 Hello, I once came to Paint.Net when I realized how perfect it inserts text to a bitmap. In v3.36 it nearly looked perfect with these settings: - Smooth - Antialiasing - Normal Blending Now, in v3.55 I miss the dropdown "Smooth/Sharp". And of course the results are significant worse. Unfortunately it is not possible to have both versions in parallel use. Can anyone give me a hint how to have the excellent text tool from v3.36 while also using v3.55? Thank you in advance Hannes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pyrochild Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 Can anyone give me a hint how to have the excellent text tool from v3.36 while also using v3.55? Upgrade to Windows 7 Quote ambigram signature by Kemaru [i write plugins and stuff] If you like a post, upvote it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 This has already been discussed many times and a long time ago. Please search and find the answers already given. Summary: The text in 3.36, rendered via GDI+, was actually not very good, and it crashed a LOT and was slow. Win7 and Vista SP2 have access to DirectWrite which produces superior text rendering in every way. For XP, I chose to use GDI (no '+') for text rendering in order to have stable (non-crashy) text rendering. The "smooth/sharp" option just chose between GDI+ and GDI rendering, but mostly it just had the effect of disabling antialiasing -- you can do that by turning off antialiasing on the right edge of the toolbar. And yeah, it's time to ditch XP. Paint.NET v4.0 will not work on XP, and Windows 7 is really good. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted September 23, 2010 Share Posted September 23, 2010 You can also try using one of the text plugins that use GDI+ for text rendering. Like this one... TextSample.zip Source code here: http://boltbait.com/pdn/CodeLab/help/tutorial4.asp Also, there are better text plugins in the plugin forum. Just search around a little. Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HannesBK Posted September 25, 2010 Author Share Posted September 25, 2010 (edited) Thank you all for your help. Sorry, that I'm not familiar with all those details. I do not use graphic tools very often. But if I do, I mostly use Paint.NET. It's easy to use, even for a dummy like me. And I can use it in my native language. @BoltBait: I just tried your pluging. The result was very good, thank you. Edited September 25, 2010 by HannesBK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoltBait Posted September 25, 2010 Share Posted September 25, 2010 Glad I could help! Quote Download: BoltBait's Plugin Pack | CodeLab | and a Free Computer Dominos Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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