From: eg <eg@...>
Date: 2003-09-26T16:45:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32 graphics library

Joe Cheng wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion.  Yes, System.Drawing would be more than adequate.
> GDI+'s resampling algorithms are very high-quality, as far as these eyes can
> tell (I used them for my wedding photos website).  And I guess there is a
> higher chance of people having the .NET framework already installed than
> cygwin/*Magick.  Still, for those that don't, a 25MB download is pretty
> painful...
> 

The quality options may be there, but it is very slow. Much of GDI+ is 
not hardware accelerated... apparently to be rectified come Longhorn..