MeasureString() pads the text on the left and the right

Question

I\'m using GDI+ in C++. (This issue might exist in C# too).

I notice that whenever I call Graphics::MeasureString() or Graphics::DrawString(), the string is padded

Answer 1

TextRenderer was great for getting the size of the font. But in the drawing loop, using TextRenderer.DrawText was excruciatingly slow compared to graphics.DrawString().

Since the width of a string is the problem, your much better off using a combination of TextRenderer.MeasureText and graphics.DrawString..