https://github.com/fdwr/textlayoutsampler

Utility to display text via multiple Windows API's simultaneously (D2D, DWrite, GDI, GDI+).
https://github.com/fdwr/textlayoutsampler

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Utility to display text via multiple Windows API's simultaneously (D2D, DWrite, GDI, GDI+).

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/fdwr/textlayoutsampler
• Owner: fdwr
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-10-21T06:24:49.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-11-05T03:44:31.000Z (5 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-11-05T05:33:40.899Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: direct2d, directwrite, typography
• Language: C++
• Homepage:
• Size: 1.4 MB
• Stars: 45
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.txt

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# TextLayoutSampler

This utility displays text drawn via multiple Windows API's simultaneously, to compare differences in rendering, font selection, and glyph shaping.

![Image of TextLayoutSampler](TextLayoutSampler.png)

## Supports:

- DirectWrite, Direct2D, GDI, GDI+ API's

- Various attributes: weight, width, slope, family, direction, locale, font size, text color, back color, rotation, pixel zoom...

- Arbitrary number of text objects with different attributes.

- Requires Windows 7+. Certain features like Direct2D SVG rendering requires Windows 10 RS4+.

## Building:

- Open TextLayoutSampler.sln in Visual Studio Professional/Community 2019 16.9.3. VS 2017 is too old, as it lacks template constraints.

- If C++ modules crash the compiler, use normal header files via USE_CPP_MODULES=0 in the project properties preprocessor definitions.