Saving Bitmaps

[NetNav]

I'm trying to use GDI+ and C# to draw some text and then save to a bitmap
file. When I open a bmp file that I have saved it looks terrible. I have
tried playing with different settings but no matter what I do it looks like
the resolution is set very low. Is this the way it is or am I missing
something.

[tom wisnowski]

Can you post some code?

"NetNav" wrote:

I'm trying to use GDI+ and C# to draw some text and then save to a bitmap
file. When I open a bmp file that I have saved it looks terrible. I have
tried playing with different settings but no matter what I do it looks like
the resolution is set very low. Is this the way it is or am I missing
something.

[NetNav]

Here is the code that I use.

Brush b = new SolidBrush(Color.Black);
Font f = new Font("verdana", 10);
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(300,200);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp);
g.Clear(Color.White);
g.DrawString("hello world", f, b, new Point(10,10));
bmp.Save(@"C:\test.bmp", ImageFormat.Bmp);
g.Dispose();

When I open test.bmp it looks terrible. How do I make it so the saved bmp
is of acceptable quality.

"tom wisnowski" wrote:

Can you post some code?

"NetNav" wrote:

I'm trying to use GDI+ and C# to draw some text and then save to a bitmap
file. When I open a bmp file that I have saved it looks terrible. I have
tried playing with different settings but no matter what I do it looks like
the resolution is set very low. Is this the way it is or am I missing
something.

[chris m]

try setting the textrenderinghint to anti-aliasing

NetNav <Ne****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<74**********************************@microso ft.com>...

Here is the code that I use.

Brush b = new SolidBrush(Color.Black);
Font f = new Font("verdana", 10);
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(300,200);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp);
g.Clear(Color.White);
g.DrawString("hello world", f, b, new Point(10,10));
bmp.Save(@"C:\test.bmp", ImageFormat.Bmp);
g.Dispose();

When I open test.bmp it looks terrible. How do I make it so the saved bmp
is of acceptable quality.

"tom wisnowski" wrote:

Can you post some code?

"NetNav" wrote:

I'm trying to use GDI+ and C# to draw some text and then save to a bitmap
file. When I open a bmp file that I have saved it looks terrible. I have
tried playing with different settings but no matter what I do it looks like
the resolution is set very low. Is this the way it is or am I missing
something.

[NetNav]

I have played with the textrenderinghint settings with no luck. If you run
the simple code described earlier on your computer how does it look?

"chris m" wrote:

try setting the textrenderinghint to anti-aliasing

NetNav <Ne****@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:<74**********************************@microso ft.com>...

Here is the code that I use.

Brush b = new SolidBrush(Color.Black);
Font f = new Font("verdana", 10);
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(300,200);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp);
g.Clear(Color.White);
g.DrawString("hello world", f, b, new Point(10,10));
bmp.Save(@"C:\test.bmp", ImageFormat.Bmp);
g.Dispose();

When I open test.bmp it looks terrible. How do I make it so the saved bmp
is of acceptable quality.

"tom wisnowski" wrote:

Can you post some code?

"NetNav" wrote:

> I'm trying to use GDI+ and C# to draw some text and then save to a bitmap
> file. When I open a bmp file that I have saved it looks terrible. I have
> tried playing with different settings but no matter what I do it looks like
> the resolution is set very low. Is this the way it is or am I missing
> something.
>
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