Ways of producing Anti-Aliased text

I'm curious if there's any API in GDI or maybe GDI+ to produce an Anti-Aliased text?

I just binged for "Anti-Aliased text gdi".

Gosh, google seemed to have some pretty good hits too.

Have you seen them?

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Originally Posted by Arjay

I just binged for "Anti-Aliased text gdi".

Gosh, google seemed to have some pretty good hits too.

Have you seen them?

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OK. Just Googled your search word... and got my own thread :)

So, the whole idea is simply using

lfQuality := ANTIALIASED_QUALITY;
lfOutPrecision := OUT_TT_ONLY_PRECIS;

when creating a text?

If you specify lfQuality := ANTIALIASED_QUALITY; then Windows will look for a font having that quality. It will not change the pixels of characters.

Nowadays, most of the fonts are antialiased fonts, because each glyph is defined with a path instead of being defined with a bitmap. That path tells to draw a straight line from a first point to another point, then to draw an arch to the next point, etc. True Type Fonts were created to hold paths (and maybe also bitmaps, I am not sure).

If you have a font defined as a grid of pixels (I call it a bitmap font), then I don't know if it can be antialiased by Windows.