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How to: Use Antialiasing with Text	03/30/2017	csharp vb	strings [Windows Forms], smoothing drawn antialiasing [Windows Forms], using with text text [Windows Forms], smoothing text [Windows Forms], antialiasing strings [Windows Forms], antialiasing when drawing	48fc34f3-f236-4b01-a0cb-f0752e6d22ae

How to: Use Antialiasing with Text

Antialiasing refers to the smoothing of jagged edges of drawn graphics and text to improve their appearance or readability. With the managed GDI+ classes, you can render high quality antialiased text, as well as lower quality text. Typically, higher quality rendering takes more processing time than lower quality rendering. To set the text quality level, set the xref:System.Drawing.Graphics.TextRenderingHint%2A property of a xref:System.Drawing.Graphics to one of the elements of the xref:System.Drawing.Text.TextRenderingHint enumeration

Example

The following code example draws text with two different quality settings.

[!code-csharpSystem.Drawing.FontsAndText#21] [!code-vbSystem.Drawing.FontsAndText#21]

The following illustration shows the output of the example code:

Compiling the Code

The preceding code example is designed for use with Windows Forms, and it requires xref:System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventArgs e, which is a parameter of xref:System.Windows.Forms.PaintEventHandler.

See also

• Using Fonts and Text