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Double pixel size of a window?

Is there a way to double the pixel size of a window, and only that window, that draws to the screen using GDI?
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Anything (apart from GDI++) to improve font rendering on Windows?

As GDI++ development has stopped... do any of you guys know a better GDI32 replacement for Windows? Should work on Windows XP 32-Bits?
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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2, built-in font smoothing

I've just installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 onto my Windows XP to evaluate it and check whether it meets my preferences the way it did before. Okay, I've temporary defeated an urgent bug with a ...
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Why might an application fail to start on Windows 7 x64 with faulting module GDI32.dll?

I'm attempting to run NSIS.exe on Windows 7 x64, but it's crashing on start, and leaving this in the event log: Faulting application name: NSIS.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x4b1ae3a1 Faulting ...
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Can I do anything to mitigate GDI resource leakage in Windows?

There's a problem on all Windows systems that there's a limitation on graphical primitives that can be used system-wide. Which leads to the following: once I've started several (actually something ...
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a 32-bit GDI printer driver on Win 7 x64

Is there any way to get a 32-bit GDI printer driver to run on Windows 7 x64 ... or any 64-bit Windows OS? The printer in question is a Canon LBP 5200. Here is the driver download page. Nope, ...