DirectWrite

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 (with Platform Update installed).[1] DirectWrite is hardware-accelerated (using the GPU) when running on top of Direct2D, but can also use the CPU to render on any target, including a GDI bitmap.[2][3]

  1. ^ "The Platform Update for Windows Vista". DirectX Developer Blog. 10 September 2009. Archived from the original on 8 April 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Introducing DirectWrite". Microsoft Developer Network. Microsoft. 26 January 2022.
  3. ^ Windows 7: Introducing Direct2D and DirectWrite – PDC 2008 video 15:00-16:00 and 27:00-28:00