How to draw a subpixel line

Question

In the following code, I\'m trying to draw two lines: One with a subpixel width (0.5) and the other with 1px width:

        var img = new Bitmap(256, 256);
              


        

Answer 1

You could hack it by drawing everything x2 and then scale it down:

        Image img2x = new Bitmap(256*2, 256*2);
        Graphics g2x = Graphics.FromImage(img2x);
        g2x.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;
        g2x.DrawLine(new Pen(Color.Red, 0.5f*2), 0, 100*2, 255*2, 110*2);

        Image img = new Bitmap(256, 256);
        Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(img);
        g.SmoothingMode = SmoothingMode.AntiAlias;
        g.DrawImage(img2x, 0, 0, 256, 256);

        g.DrawLine(new Pen(Color.Red, 1f), 0, 110, 255, 120);

        img.Save(@"c:\tmep\test.png", ImageFormat.Png);