GDI questions are the types of questions that normally stand as Zero Post threads but I am going to go ahead and ask this question anyway.

Using the DrawString() method it is easy enough to draw X string to an image as long as you want it drawn inside a rectangle. How would I go about drawing text along an arch though. (Think Microsof Word Art)

Is this something that I am going to have draw each character and rotate it slightly to give the appearance that it is following an arch or is there someway that I can define an array of coords that it should follow?

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SOLUTION:

I adapted my code from Justin Rogers blog entry: http://weblogs.asp.net/justin_rogers...20/217716.aspx

Using Justin's Circular Textual Layout as a base I began my own coding. You see, following his code your text will follow a path around a circle with each character being rotated to the corrospodning angle that character sits on.

I needed each character to follow that path but be displayed vertically and only encompass half of the circle. (So essitnally if my text started at 180º it would be printed left to right and when it came to 0º I wanted the text to stop) How I figured that out is beyond the scope of this post but below find the source code that will allow you to print text along circular path.

        Dim strString As String = "Wildcats"
        Dim c() As Char = strString.ToCharArray
        Dim radians As Decimal
        Dim xoffset, yoffset, yoffset1 As Decimal
        Dim cx, cy As Integer
        Dim cr As Integer
        Dim cc As Decimal
        Dim carCD As Decimal
        Dim Tsangle As Decimal = 180 'This is the start point

        cx = 122 / 2 'Width of circle
        cy = 122 / 2 'Height of circle

        cr = Convert.ToInt32(cx * 0.9F)
        cc = Convert.ToDecimal(PI * 2 * cr)
        carCD = 0.397
'In his original example, the above code was written as carCD = cc / 360.0F which, essentially, defines how much space is between your printed text. The lower the number the more space that will be between your characters and vice versa

        Dim strImageOut As String = Server.MapPath("./test1.jpg")
        Dim imgJpeg As Bitmap = New Bitmap(130, 130)
        Dim gGraphics As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(imgJpeg) 'Set the copy to be drawn on
        Dim solidBrushBlk As New SolidBrush(ColorTranslator.FromHtml("#000000")) 'standard black brush
        Dim objFont As New Font(System.Drawing.FontFamily.GenericSansSerif, 12, FontStyle.Regular, GraphicsUnit.Pixel)

          For i = 0 To c.GetUpperBound(0)
            radians = (Tsangle / 180 * PI)
            xoffset = Cos(radians) * cr
            yoffset = Sin(radians) * cr * -1 'by inverting the sine this will send the text along the upper ridge of the circle left to right
            yoffset1 = Sin(radians) * cr 'by not inverting the sine this will send the text along the lower ridge of the circle left to right

            gGraphics.TranslateTransform(cx + xoffset, cy + yoffset)
            gGraphics.DrawString(c(i).ToString, objFont, Brushes.Red, 0, 0)
            gGraphics.ResetTransform()

            gGraphics.TranslateTransform(cx + xoffset, cy + yoffset1)
            gGraphics.DrawString(c(i).ToString, objFont, Brushes.White, 0, 0)
            gGraphics.ResetTransform()
            Tsangle -= (objSize.Width / carCD)
        Next

        Dim encoderParams As System.Drawing.Imaging.EncoderParameters = New System.Drawing.Imaging.EncoderParameters
        Dim encoderParam As System.Drawing.Imaging.EncoderParameter = New System.Drawing.Imaging.EncoderParameter(System.Dra wing.Imaging.Encoder.Quality, 100)
        encoderParams.Param(0) = encoderParam

        Dim arrayICI As ImageCodecInfo() = ImageCodecInfo.GetImageEncoders()
        Dim jpegICI As ImageCodecInfo

        For x = 0 To arrayICI.Length - 1
            If (arrayICI(x).FormatDescription.Equals("JPEG")) Then
                jpegICI = arrayICI(x)
                Exit For
            End If
        Next

        If Not jpegICI Is Nothing Then
            imgJpeg.Save(strImageOut, jpegICI, encoderParams)
        End If

        gGraphics.Dispose()
        imgJpeg.Dispose()

The above code will print a black square and to strings of text, one red and one white. The red string will follow the upper ridge of the circle and the white string will follow the lower ridge of the cricle both moving left to right.

"The one language all programmers understand is profanity."