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Tag Archives: fonts
Find drawn characters under the mouse in C#
The following examples find the positions of drawn characters in a string that is drawn by using the Graphics object’s DrawString method. Measure character positions in a drawn string in C# Measure character positions when drawing long strings in C# … Continue reading
Posted in algorithms, drawing, fonts, graphics, strings
Tagged algorithms, C#, C# programming, characters, draw strings, draw text, drawing, drawn characters, example, example program, fonts, graphics, measure characters, MeasureCharacterRanges, SetMeasurableCharacterRanges, strings, Windows Forms programming
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Flow words around drop caps in C#
The example Flow blocks around obstacles for document layout in C# implements a document layout algorithm that flows blocks around obstacles. Moving from there to flowing words around obstacles is relatively simple. The following sections describe the main places where … Continue reading
Posted in algorithms, fonts, graphics, strings
Tagged algorithms, C#, C# programming, document layout, drop caps, example, example program, fonts, graphics, illuminated text, strings, text, Windows Forms programming
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Flow words around obstacles for document layout in C#
The example Flow blocks around obstacles for document layout in C# implements a document layout algorithm that flows blocks around obstacles. Moving from there to flowing words around obstacles is relatively simple. The following sections describe the two main places … Continue reading
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Tagged algorithms, C#, C# programming, document layout, drop caps, example, example program, fonts, graphics, illuminated text, strings, text, Windows Forms programming
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Flow blocks around obstacles for document layout in C#
The following two document layout examples draw “illuminated” text by using an initial or drop cap. Draw different styles of “illuminated” text in C# Draw “illuminated” text in C# Martin asked how we could do something similar when the text … Continue reading
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Tagged algorithms, C#, C# programming, document layout, drop caps, example, example program, fonts, graphics, illuminated text, strings, text, Windows Forms programming
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Draw text with colors reversed along a sine wave in C#
The post Draw text with colors reversed along a diagonal line in C# demonstrated a general technique for splitting text (or any other image) into pieces that are drawn differently. That example showed how to draw text with some areas … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, C# programming, draw text, drawing, DrawString, example, example program, fonts, graphics, Windows Forms programming
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Draw text with colors reversed along a diagonal line in C#
The post Draw text with colors reversed in its upper and lower halves in C# showed how you can draw text that has upper and lower halves with colors switched. This example uses a similar technique to switch the colors … Continue reading
Posted in drawing, fonts, graphics
Tagged C#, draw text, drawing, DrawString, example, example program, fonts, graphics, text, Windows Forms programming
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Draw different styles of “illuminated” text in C#
My previous post Draw “illuminated” text in C# showed how to draw “illuminated” text. It drew each paragraph’s initial letter in a large font with a box around it. Real illuminated manuscripts typically make the initial letter much more elaborate. … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, C# programming, example, example program, fonts, graphics, illuminated text, strings, text, Windows Forms programming
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Draw “illuminated” text in C#
This example lets you draw “illuminated text” where each paragraph begins with an oversized letter. In some illuminated manuscripts, the first letter of a paragraph is drawn in a larger font than the remaining text. This example does something similar. … Continue reading
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Tagged C#, C# programming, example, example program, fonts, graphics, illuminated text, strings, text, Windows Forms programming
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Use StringFormat to align text in columns in C#
My previous post Use tabs and StringFormat to align text in C# showed how to use a StringFormat object to draw tab-delimited text in columns. Unfortunately, that method doesn’t give you control over how the values in each column are … Continue reading
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Tagged align columns, align text, alignment, C#, C# programming, column alignment, example, example program, fonts, graphics, StringFormat, strings, tabs, Windows Forms programming
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