Replicating Tahoma 8pt, FlatStyle=System with drawstring

[Al Gardner]

Maybe I am just over fussy, but I would like to exactly replicate the OS Font when ownerdrawing a control. I have looked at the examples on CodeProject and the Web and all of them seem to fail to correctly render. To demonstrate this try, Create a new windows form application, and set the form to Tahoma. Add a standard label, Textbox or other control, and set it to be FlatStyle=System. Set it's .Text to be "Debug" Then add a new user control, override the OnPaint and Drawstring("Debug"...); You will notice that the D and e have a different spacing and also that the final point of the e raises on the Drawstring text. (Use the XP magnifier or download the taskbar magnifier from MS powertools to see it more easily). I have so far tried: StringFormat, SmoothingMode, InterpolationMode and TextRenderingHint and yet I have failed to have much effect. Does anybody have the answer?