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Windows text layout and glyph rendering API
DirectWrite is a text layout and glyph rendering API by Microsoft. It was designed to replace GDI/GDI+ and Uniscribe for screen-oriented rendering and was first shipped with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, as well as Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. DirectWrite is hardware-accelerated when running on top of Direct2D, but can also use the CPU to render on any target, including a GDI bitmap. Wikipedia →
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đź“š Books worth reading
Printed biomaterialsRoger Narayan, Thomas Boland · 2009- 📕Electrohydrodynamic Direct-WritingGaofeng Zheng, Xiamen University Press Xiamen University Press · 2025
Direct-write technologies for rapid prototyping applicationsDouglas B. Chrisey · 2001
Electrohydrodynamic Direct-Writing for Flexible Electronic ManufacturingZhouping Yin, Yongan Huang · 2017- 📕Direct-write contactsMaikel F. A. M. van Hest · 2008
Direct-write technologies for rapid prototyping applications · 2001
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