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Blurry and large image barcode being generated using a plugin in Windows Form

Going through the steps mentioned here
and using IDAutomationCode39, I am getting the barcode image, however they are very blurr and only scans bigger size images. My barcode id will be upto 30 characters long, which is causing a very wide barcode image. Where could the problem lie? Is it the IDAutomationCode39 or my setting in my button click event below?
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string abbre = GenerateProdCodeFromProductName();
txt2.Text = abbre;
string barcode = txt1.Text;
Bitmap bitm = new Bitmap(barcode.Length * 45, 160);
bitm.SetResolution(240, 240);
using (Graphics graphic = Graphics.FromImage(bitm))
{
Font newfont = new Font("IDAutomationHC39M", 6);
PointF point = new PointF(5f, 5f);
SolidBrush black = new SolidBrush(Color.Black);
SolidBrush white = new SolidBrush(Color.White);
graphic.FillRectangle(white, 0, 0, bitm.Width, bitm.Height);
graphic.DrawString("*" + barcode + "*", newfont, black, point);
}
using (MemoryStream Mmst = new MemoryStream())
{
bitm.Save("ms", ImageFormat.Jpeg);
pictureBox1.Image = bitm;
pictureBox1.Width = bitm.Width;
pictureBox1.Height = bitm.Height;
}
}
Thank you.

I don't see any PlugIn reference in your code, you are just using a Code39 ASCII font to print a Barcode on a Bitmap.
The problem I see is that the size of the resulting Bitmap is unscaled.
What I mean is, you let the size of the Barcode determine the size of the final graphic image.
It is usually the opposite. You have some defined dimensions for a Bitmap, because of layout constraints: you have to print the barcode to a label, for example.
If the generated Barcode is wider than its container, you have to normalize it (scale it to fit).
Here is what I propose. The size of the Bitmap if fixed (300, 150). When the Barcode is generated, its size is scaled to fit the Bitmap size.
The quality of the image is preserved, using an Bicubic Interpolation in case of down scaling. The resulting graphics is also Anti-Aliased.
(Anti-Alias has a good visual render. May not be the best choice for printing. It also depends on the printer.)
The generated Bitmap is then passed to a PictureBox for visualization and saved to disk as a PNG image (this format because of its loss-less compression).
Here is the result:
string Barcode = "*8457QK3P9*";
using (Bitmap bitmap = new Bitmap(300, 150))
{
bitmap.SetResolution(240, 240);
using (Graphics graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bitmap))
{
Font font = new Font("IDAutomationSHC39M", 10, FontStyle.Regular, GraphicsUnit.Point);
graphics.Clear(Color.White);
StringFormat stringformat = new StringFormat(StringFormatFlags.NoWrap);
graphics.TextRenderingHint = TextRenderingHint.AntiAliasGridFit;
graphics.TextContrast = 10;
PointF TextPosition = new PointF(10F, 10F);
SizeF TextSize = graphics.MeasureString(Barcode, font, TextPosition, stringformat);
if (TextSize.Width > bitmap.Width)
{
float ScaleFactor = (bitmap.Width - (TextPosition.X / 2)) / TextSize.Width;
graphics.InterpolationMode = InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic;
graphics.ScaleTransform(ScaleFactor, ScaleFactor);
}
graphics.DrawString(Barcode, font, new SolidBrush(Color.Black), TextPosition, StringFormat.GenericTypographic);
bitmap.Save(#"[SomePath]\[SomeName].png", ImageFormat.Png);
this.pictureBox1.Image = (Bitmap)bitmap.Clone();
font.Dispose();
}
}

Adding two image into one image c#?

I want to combine two image but I cant success . Help me please.
When try the combine PictureBox show only first image but there is not second image , when I remove first image I can see second image.
Also I tried setting first image and draw the text on image that's also not working. Please help.
Image myimg = Code128Rendering.MakeBarcodeImage(textBox1.Text, 2, true);
Bitmap image = new Bitmap(myimg.Width + 20, myimg.Height + 50);
pictureBox1.DrawToBitmap(image, new Rectangle(0, 0, myimg.Width + 20, myimg.Height + 50));
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(myimg.Width + 20, myimg.Height);
Bitmap bmp2 = new Bitmap(myimg.Width + 20, 20);
Graphics Cizgi2 = Graphics.FromImage(bmp2);
Graphics Cizgi = Graphics.FromImage(bmp);
Cizgi.DrawImage(myimg, 0, 0);
FontStyle sitil = FontStyle.Bold;
Font fonts = new Font(new FontFamily("Arial"), 10, sitil);
Cizgi2.DrawString(textBox1.Text, fonts, Brushes.Black, 5, myimg.Height + 10);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(image);
g.DrawImage(bmp, new Point(10, 0));
g.DrawImage(bmp2, new Point(0, bmp.Height + 10));
I want to image seems like first but i cant make

It looks like you are trying to concatenate two images vertically? It's pretty simple actually, you can look here (C# image concatenation), but I've also modified it for your needs. I think this should work:
float drawBorderX = 5;
float drawBorderY = 5;
//Set up our two images
Bitmap barCode = Code128Rendering.MakeBarcodeImage(textBox1.Text, 2, true);
Bitmap text = new Bitmap(barCode.Width, 50);
Graphics textGraphics = Graphics.FromImage(text);
//Draw the text to the bottom image.
FontStyle sitil = FontStyle.Bold;
Font fonts = new Font(new FontFamily("Arial"), 10, sitil);
textGraphics.FillRectangle(new SolidBrush(Color.White), new Rectangle(0, 0, text.Width, text.Height));
textGraphics.DrawString(textBox1.Text, fonts, Brushes.Black, drawBorderX, drawBorderY);
//Vertically concatenate the two images.
Bitmap resultImage = new Bitmap(Math.Max(barCode.Width, text.Width), barCode.Height + text.Height);
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(resultImage);
g.DrawImage(barCode, 0, 0);
g.DrawImage(text, 0, barCode.Height);
Edit: Note that resultImage will contain the image you want, so you can set your PictureBox to be that image at the end.

How can i set a background image to a image which in being generated dynamically

I am creating some dynamic image using the following code
System.Drawing.Image img = new Bitmap(300, 600);
Graphics drawing = Graphics.FromImage(img);
//paint the background
drawing.Clear(System.Drawing.Color.White);
//create a brush for the text
Brush textBrush = new SolidBrush(textColor);
drawing.DrawString(text, font, textBrush, 0, 0);
drawing.Save();
textBrush.Dispose();
drawing.Dispose();
Instead of white backgroung i want to use an image (company logo) so that it act like a water mark. How can i do that?

Change your textBrush definition to look ike this:
int alpha = 128; // range from 0 (transparent) to 255 (opaque)
Brush textBrush = new SolidBrush(Color.FromArgb(alpha, textColor);

C# adding string to image, using the max font size

I want to add 2 string to an image as follows:
This is Text
------------
------------
------------
--Other-----
How do I use the largest font size possible without have the String go off the side of the image?
example: if text is too big then it goes off the image::
This is Text That is too big
------------
------------
------------
--Other-----

I wrote this script on my previous projects to fit some text into the image by calculating its dimensions for each font-size. when the font size is bigger than the image's width, it lowers the font size by 0.1em and tries again until the text fits in the image. Here's the code :
public static string drawTextOnMarker(string markerfile, string text, string newfilename,Color textColor)
{
//Uri uri = new Uri(markerfile, UriKind.Relative);
//markerfile = uri.AbsolutePath;
//uri = new Uri(newfilename, UriKind.Relative);
//newfilename = uri.AbsolutePath;
if (!System.IO.File.Exists(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(newfilename)))
{
try
{
Bitmap bmp = new Bitmap(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(markerfile));
Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp);
g.TextRenderingHint = System.Drawing.Text.TextRenderingHint.AntiAliasGridFit;
StringFormat strFormat = new StringFormat();
strFormat.Alignment = StringAlignment.Center;
SolidBrush myBrush = new SolidBrush(textColor);
float fontsize = 10;
bool sizeSetupCompleted = false;
while (!sizeSetupCompleted)
{
SizeF mySize = g.MeasureString(text, new Font("Verdana", fontsize, FontStyle.Bold));
if (mySize.Width > 24 || mySize.Height > 13)
{
fontsize-= float.Parse("0.1");
}
else
{
sizeSetupCompleted = true;
}
}
g.DrawString(text, new Font("Verdana", fontsize, FontStyle.Bold), myBrush, new RectangleF(4, 3, 24, 8), strFormat);
bmp.Save(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Server.MapPath(newfilename));
return newfilename.Substring(2);
}
catch (Exception)
{
return markerfile.Substring(2);
}
}
return newfilename.Substring(2);
}

Here is a quick solution:
using (Graphics g = Graphics.FromImage(bmp))
{
float width = g.MeasureString(text, font).Width;
float scale = bmp.Width / width;
g.ScaleTransform(scale, scale); //Simple trick not to use other Font instance
g.DrawString(text, font, Brushes.Black, PointF.Empty);
g.ResetTransform();
...
}
Your text won't be always 100% width if you use TextRenderingHint.AntiAliasGridFit or similar, but I think that's not a problem as you just want to make sure the text alawys fits in the image.

How to draw centered text onto a jpg using system.drawing in c#

I am using the following code to draw text onto a jpg image but it requires x/y coordinate percision on where to place the text.
var bmp = new Bitmap("C:\\testing\\Given.jpg");
var gra = Graphics.FromImage(bmp);
var text = "The Berman's";
var font = new Font("Segoe Script", 24);
var brush = Brushes.Orange;
var point = new PointF(130, 224);
gra.DrawString(text, font, brush, point);
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using(var sf = new StringFormat()
{
Alignment = StringAlignment.Center,
LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center,
})
{
gra.DrawString(text, font, brush, new Rectangle(0, 0, bmp.Width, bmp.Height), sf);
}