Fonts
Working with various fonts has never been a trivial task. Each font has specific characteristics such as its height, width, ascent, and decent. Fortunately, working with the Font class provided by the base class libraries makes working with fonts a painless task.
Fonts, like brushes and pens, can be solid or textured and can be any size or color. Included with the .NET Framework SDK is a wonderful font example that includes textured fonts, drop shadows, internalization, and font rotation. For the sake of completeness, the Font Demo application will be shown to illustrate the following topics:
Drop shadows
Textured fonts
Background images
Graphics transformations
The Font Demo will be in the style of the Pen Demo presented earlier in this chapter, ...
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