microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.drawing

Bob Powell

12/6/2004 12:16:00 AM

I suspect that you're viewing the bitmap with something like Paint which
doesn't take any notice of the resolution.

An image with higher resolution will indeed require more pixels to create
text of a certain size. This is expected.

Try using the image viewer.

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Visual C#, System.Drawing

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"igkins" <igkins@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:97A0ECC7-487A-4F51-9E90-4197B815950A@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I have the following code:
>
> image = createImage(sType)
> image.SetResolution(300, 300)
> g = Graphics.FromImage(image)
> textFont = New Font(fontFace, 8.0F, FontStyle.Bold)
> g.DrawString(sText, textFont, New SolidBrush(fontColor), _
> New RectangleF(outRect.X, outRect.Y,
> outRect.Width, _
> (inRect.Y - outRect.Y)), format)
>
> Before, I wasn't setting the resolution and the image came out crappy.
> After I added the code to SetResolution a little higher, the text looks a
lot
> better, but its a lot larger is well? Why is that?