Drawing Stretched Text

andrew

here is another question for gdi+ gurus: I have a rectangle on a screen that I need to fit text into. The text needs to be centered vertically, and fit horizontally from left to right so that characters will be stretched or shrunk depending on the size of the rectangle. I tried using ScaleTransform, and it seems to work almost, but the text always starts too far from the beginning. Here is what I'm doing now: SizeF size = g.MeasureString(text, font, 4000, format); float isWidth = size.Width; float needWidth = Width; float scale = needWidth / (isWidth > 0 ? isWidth : 1); g.TranslateTransform(-X, -Y); g.ScaleTransform(scale, 1); g.TranslateTransform(X, Y); g.DrawString(text, font, brush, LayoutRectangle, format); i think i must do something different with translateTransform to make it work property. Any ideas? Thanks.

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andrew23y ago
The problem with using just Scale is that the text is not drawn at 0, 0 position so it scales the positions too. What I had to do is scale the rectangle by x, y, width and height by the scale factor. Another problem I have now, is when the text is stretched and I have a texture for brush it gets distored, I need the texture to remain unscaled.
Mahesh Chand23y ago
Can you post your working code here? You should be able to acheive this suing ScaleTransform, TranslateTransform, and StringFormat. In StringFormat, you can provide center alignment within the rectangle. You should be able to do it without using TranslateTransform. Just scale the text and align it to center using StringFormat.