I know how to draw text on graphics and all thats fine however I do have a couple of questions

1) the text comes out blurry on jpg images. Any ideas on how to make it clearer and smooth?

2) what font can you recommend that I can use which looks good, the font color I will be using is white since the images are generally dark. I just can't seem to find a font I am attracted to.

Thanks!

When I see blurry text in a graphic sometimes it's because image is not displayed at exact image size. 

For example, if image size is 100 x 100, but you display it as 105 x 105, text will blur.

HTH

well not quite. The image is fine, crystal clear... but when adding text, the text is the only thing that is blurry.

Thanks but I don't mean watermarking :)

ahmedilyas:

when adding text, the text is the only thing that is blurry

We better look at your code...

I don't see anything unusual in this code.  Could you email a copy of your graphic with blurry text?

Ahmed,

You could also reduce jaggedness of a font by reducing its size.  However, I realize such action can reduce the readability of the text, too.

Rick

Hello GeoSync,

Can you post an example how you can "outline" and "border" text, when you using DrawString.

Thanx.

To outline a string, create a graphicspath and use addstring. use this graphicspath in a region and it wil display as an outline of the text

 @BanjoPickerKing

Do you have an example how to use graphicspath?

Thanx.

Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.Drawing.Drawing2D 

        Dim b As New Bitmap(500, 400)
        Dim g As Graphics
        Dim gp As New GraphicsPath

        gp.AddString("Test String", FontFamily.GenericSerif, 0, 72, New PointF(100, 250), New StringFormat)

        g = Graphics.FromImage(b)
        g.Clear(Color.White)
        g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.HighQuality
        g.DrawPath(Pens.Black, gp)

        Response.AddHeader("Content-Type", "binary/octet-stream")
        Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "filename=img.jpg")
        Response.Flush()

        b.Save(Response.OutputStream, Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg)

 the g.SmoothingMode sets the smoothness, obviously, of the GraphicsPath.

 the graininess or blurriness usually comes up on these GDI images so dont worry too much about it.

I was having a similar issue - but I switched to GIF output format and it's fine now.