Does WinRT provides an option to fall back to software ClearType font rendering (as Direct2D do via "Direct2D and GDI Interoperability") or we will be stuck with somewhat blurry hardware font anti-aliasing only?
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No GDI in WinRT, DirectWrite is it. High DPI panels for everyone, yahoo.
– Hans Passant
@Hans DirectWrite still has the option to fall back to "GDI classic" antialiasing, but I don't think that's exposed in Windows.UI.Xaml.
– Pavel Minaev
Pavel is probably right.
– Dmitry Sychov
There is no visual difference between software and hardware sub-pixel ClearType rendering. I think perhaps you are referring to regular gray-scale (smoothing) vs ClearType.
– DamienG
This might be useful: stackoverflow.com/questions/8612266/…
– arx
