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Re: Text antialiasing (smoothing)



on 10/3/05 9:05 AM, Marc Poirier at email@hidden wrote:

> On Oct 2, 2005, at 7:26 PM, B.J. Buchalter wrote:
> 
>> I would like to be able to tell the system to draw my text
>> antialiased.
>> 
>> Any ways to accomplish this?
>> 
>> BTW calls to the API:
>>         SetAntiAliasedTextEnabled(true, 3);
>> 
>> are ignored.
> 
> There is also CGContextSetShouldSmoothFonts() (though I'm not sure if
> that will override the system setting, either).

Thanks Marc,

I don't necessarily own the context that the drawing is happening in,
however, so I don't think I can utilize this (e.g. the context could be a
transient on created by the XXXDrawTextBox() call).

Anyone else have any ideas?

TIA,

B.J. Buchalter

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