{"id":401,"date":"2009-08-15T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2009-08-15T20:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T20:59:00","slug":"paintnet-v35-enhanced-for-windows-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/2009\/08\/paintnet-v35-enhanced-for-windows-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Paint.NET v3.5 enhanced for Windows 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0CVJHmIcLIk\/SockYLe-RfI\/AAAAAAAAAHk\/v_6RRI8f7Hs\/s1600-h\/logo.gif\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 45px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_0CVJHmIcLIk\/SockYLe-RfI\/AAAAAAAAAHk\/v_6RRI8f7Hs\/s400\/logo.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370301078480766450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest alpha build of Paint.NET v3.5 will now use <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/dd371554%28VS.85%29.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">DirectWrite<\/a> instead of GDI for the Text tool if you are running Windows 7. DirectWrite is a new font and text rendering system that comes with Windows 7. In Paint.NET, you\u2019ll see the following benefits:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Faster text rendering<\/strong>. This is currently due to important architectural differences from GDI. With DirectWrite, I can render using multiple threads (performance scaling), while also not blocking the UI thread from drawing (mutexing). GDI can only render text on 1 thread at a time, and that also includes the thread responsible for the UI. DirectWrite can also benefit from GPU acceleration when things are set up correctly with Direct2D <em>(Paint.NET only uses the software rasterization capabilities right now, but in the future who knows!)<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Better quality text rendering<\/strong>. DirectWrite implements what is called \u201cy-direction antialiasing\u201d. The short story is that GDI apparently only does antialiasing on the horizontal axis. It can also position characters with sub-pixel accuracy \u2026 in other words, GDI uses integers and DirectWrite uses floating point.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Windows 7 Users can Get it here: <\/div>\n<div><a title=\"http:\/\/paintdotnet.forumer.com\/viewtopic.php?f=46&amp;t=31132\" href=\"http:\/\/paintdotnet.forumer.com\/viewtopic.php?f=46&amp;t=31132\">http:\/\/paintdotnet.forumer.com\/viewtopic.php?f=46&amp;t=31132<\/a><\/div>\n<div>via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.getpaint.net\/2009\/08\/11\/paintnet-v35-now-enhanced-for-windows-7-with-directwrite\/\">Paint.netBlog<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest alpha build of Paint.NET v3.5 will now use DirectWrite instead of GDI for the Text tool if you are running Windows 7. DirectWrite is a new font and text rendering system that comes with Windows 7. In Paint.NET, you\u2019ll see the following benefits: Faster text rendering. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net","category-windows-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windowsvj.com\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}