Drawing Text
The Bitmap class also provides methods to allow you to write text on the display. The character designs are expressed as font rasters, which cannot be scaled; instead, you must provide versions for each size that you require. The font raster that you wish to use can be stored as a data resource that you need to add to the project. The Font instance itself is created from a font resource:
Font myFont = Resources.GetFont(Resources.FontResources.NinaB)
This font can now be supplied to the methods that draw text in a bitmap.
Drawing Text in a Bitmap
The Bitmap class provides the DrawText method, which can be used to place text on the display at a particular position.
Font myFont = Resources.GetFont(Resources.FontResources.NinaB); myBitmap.DrawText( ...
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