Font rendering libraries for C# / dot-NET?

Question

Are there any free, third-party libraries for rendering arbitrarily scaled and rotated text in dot-NET applications? Although native GDI+ allows for text scaling and rotation, its methods for determining the rendered text's dimensions are not sufficiently precise and the differences in kerning as text is added to a rendered string make it unsuitable for use in certain kinds of software (such as, for instance, graphics editing software).

Requirements:

• Native .NET code.
• Arbitrary scaling and rotation of text.
• Precise text metrics.
• Consistent kerning regardless of string length.

Answer 1

Windows Presentation Foundation provides sophisticated support for typography.