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How to setup text drawing hit for ExtTextOut ?

In my .NET app I have to use some home-made, Uniscribe based, text drawing
with ScriptTextOut which, ultimately, calls ExtTextOut..
I would like to setup things like text quality, anti aliasing, etc....
What API should I look into?
Thanks! :-)
May 24 '06 #1
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In my .NET app I have to use some home-made, Uniscribe based, text drawing
with ScriptTextOut which, ultimately, calls ExtTextOut..
I would like to setup things like text quality, anti aliasing, etc....
What API should I look into?
Thanks! :-)


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May 27 '06 #2
>> In my .NET app I have to use some home-made, Uniscribe based, text
drawing with ScriptTextOut which, ultimately, calls ExtTextOut..
I would like to setup things like text quality, anti aliasing, etc....
What API should I look into?
Thanks! :-)


CreateFont

I just found out a couple of hours ago!
Thanks for being the first to answer this long standing question anyway :-D
May 27 '06 #3

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