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Hey guys & gals, I was wondering if there was a way to draw text on a path (in my case a circle) without the text becoming distorted. Here is an example of the distorted text on a path: 
Now here is how it looks when not on a path: 
Now, just for fun, here is an SVG representation of the same idea where the text is NOT distorted: 
Can this be done in graphicsmill without the nightmare scenario of having to manually rotate each character plus all the font measuring that would entail? Cheers :)
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You can use the PathText.Stretch property to specify whether the glyphes should be distorted. |
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Originally Posted by: Fedor  You can use the PathText.Stretch property to specify whether the glyphes should be distorted. Sadly, this did not solve this issue. Quote:var pathText = new PathText(text, font, new SolidBrush(col), path, TextAlignment.Center); pathText.Stretch = false; graphics.DrawText(pathText); Quote:var pathText = new PathText(text, font, new SolidBrush(col), path, TextAlignment.Center); pathText.Stretch = true; graphics.DrawText(pathText); ... generate the same visible output (unless I am doing something wrong).
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Hi, I just wrote a small code sample, and it gives me pretty different results. Could you post here your code? Code:using (var bitmap = new Bitmap(300, 300, PixelFormat.Format8bppGrayscale, RgbColor.White))
using (var gr = bitmap.GetAdvancedGraphics())
using (var path = new Path())
{
path.MoveTo(40, 300);
path.CurveTo(150, 100, 250, 300);
var pathText = new PathText("Text", gr.CreateFont("Arial", 60));
pathText.Path = path;
pathText.Alignment = TextAlignment.Center;
gr.DrawText(pathText);
pathText.Stretch = false;
path.Translate(0, -100);
gr.DrawText(pathText);
bitmap.Save("result.png");
}
Edited by user Thursday, July 13, 2017 6:52:32 PM(UTC)
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Yep, I am an idiot... The problem was 100% my code. Sorry to waste your time :)
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