Direct2D

• Getting Started with Direct2D¹
  • Creating a Simple Direct2D Application
• Programming Guide
  • Text Rendering with Direct2D and DirectWrite

This portion was picked from documentation titled Get Started with Win32 and C++. It is best read in that context, but a glimpse of the Direct2D portion here may be useful introduction.

• Module 3: Windows Graphics²
  • Your First Direct2D Program
  • Render Targets, Devices, and Resources
  • DPI and Device-Independent Pixels -- Contributed (23 July 2020) a Note ending the section titled Converting Physical Pixels to DPI pointing out that ID2D1Factory::GetDesktopDpi is deprecated and related alternatives. A related topic is Setting the Default DPI Awareness of a Process.

Micorosft Docs Paths

1. … / Win32 / … / DirectX Graphics and Gaming / Direct2D †
2. … / Win32 / Get Started / Get Started with Win32 and C++ †

API Reference

• Direct2D
• DirectWrite

Libraries, Tools, Samples, and Code

• Win2D
  • src

DirectWrite

• DirectWrite

Windows Imaging Component (WIC)

• WIC
  • How to Modify the Pixels of a Bitmap Source

Reading

• Direct2D: How to Implement Deferred Registration of Custom Effects
• Why are 2D vector graphics so much harder than 3D?
• Direct2D Geometries
• Improving the high-DPI experience in GDI based Desktop Apps -- Doug King; Windows Blogs.
• Kenny Kerr
  • 02/2009 Introducing Direct2D
  • 09/2009 Drawing with Direct2D
  • 12/2009 Layered Windows with Direct2D
  • 02/2013 Creating Desktop Apps using VC++ 2012
  • 03/2013 Rendering in a Desktop App with Direct2D
  • 05/2013 Introducing Direct2D 1.1
  • How to Render using a Direct2D DeviceContext -- The diagram here goes well with the above article.
  • 06/2013 A Modern C++ Library for DirectX Programming
  • 10/2013 Rendering for the Windows Runtime
  • 11/2013 Fonts with DirectWrite
  • 02/2014 High-DPI Apps for Windows 8.1
  • 06/2014 High-performance Window Layering Using the Windows Composition Engine
  • 07/2014 Embracing the Windows Composition Engine
  • 08/2014 DirectComposition: A Retained-Mode API
  • 09/2014 DirectComposition: Transforms & Animation
  • 11/2015 Windows 10 Composition
• Charles Petzold
  • Pagination with DirectWrite
  • VirtualSurfaceImageSource and DPI Resolution
• Introduction to DirectWrite -- Marc Gregoire
• Blend2D
  • The engine features a new rasterizer that has been written from scratch; what is a rasterizer?
  • The engine utilizes a built-in JIT compiler to generate optimized pipelines at runtime and is capable of using multiple threads to boost the performance beyond the possibilities of single-threaded rendering; where does a compiler fit in here?
• 2014 TOG Massively Parallel Vector Graphics