Blind Comparison VS2008 vs. VS2010
The text clarity improvements in WPF4 bring WPFs text rendering to near GDI compatibility. Below is another set of comparison shots between VS2008 (GDI) and VS2010 (WPF4). These were taken with the newly released VS2010. I have intentionally not marked which screenshot is from which version of VS. Test yourself and see if you can determine which is which. A key is below, but don’t cheat :-)
Jflam
-Chipalo
Key
Brad’s Dark Consolas – VS08 , VS10
Garden Of Eden – VS08, VS10
Humane Studio – VS08, VS10
Jflam – VS08, VS10
Slim Code – VS10 , VS08
Vibrant Ink – VS10, VS10 trick!
Zenburn – VS10, VS08
Comments
Anonymous
April 13, 2010
Ha! I got them all except the trick question. I actually chose one because I didn't think you'd play a prank on me. I wasn't sure on that one, tho. Toin coss, really. WPF 4.0 RTM text is very distinctive to my eyes even with GDI approximations. Not sure why, but it has been intolerable in the past and is much better now.Anonymous
April 14, 2010
I can see minor differences on a couple of those, but not all of them (and only in a side-by-side comparison). Great work, guys.Anonymous
April 20, 2010
It seems the DrawingContext.DrawText still uses the old rendering... Here's an example : http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3430/rhfjdjejdl.png (using a simple DrawingVisual)Anonymous
April 20, 2010
Aethec - You are right. We just reproed this issue in house. We will file a bug on it. Thanks.