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[Suggestion] Option to use text rendering with AA+hinting

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Ataqer
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[Suggestion] Option to use text rendering with AA+hinting

Post by Ataqer »

Could we have the option to specify the TextRenderingHintAntiAliasGridFit hint for string rendering instead of always using TextRenderingHintAntiAlias?

There are some situations where this results in a pretty dramatic improvement in image quality, IMO:

TextRenderingHintAntiAlias (AntiAlias=1):
Image

TextRenderingHintAntiAliasGridFit:
Image

The hinting does look off in some places, but being grid aligned makes the overall quality of the text better. Unfortunately, this hint results in no antialiasing for fonts like Arial and Tahoma (and I think Consolas actually looks worse), so it's not applicable in general, but I think an option could be handy.