Missing DirectWrite features

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WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.

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Missing DirectWrite features #7813

Open miloush opened 1 year ago

miloush commented 1 year ago

Tracking issue for features that DWrite has but WPF does not.

[ ] variable fonts #7758
[ ] color fonts #91 #2043
[ ] downloadable fonts
[ ] in-memory fonts
[ ] typography family model
[ ] font sets
[ ] vertical text #7386
[ ] customizable font fallback
[ ] expiration events

adegeo commented 1 year ago

@miloush I'm researching information about https://github.com/dotnet/docs-desktop/issues/1643 and trying to understand what we should update in the docs regarding font rendering. AFAIK there isn't support for any other modern font system, and only ClearType is supported, correct? If that statement is true, that means WPF looks bad on OLED and other displays that use different subpixel schemes than the older LCD vertical RGB subpixels, correct?

miloush commented 1 year ago

I don't think you need to update anything on that page. It simply documents a way to set/override DWRITE_PIXEL_GEOMETRY for WPF application and all the possible DWrite values are included.