Draw text at center

Question

Which is the best way to drawString at the center of a rectangleF? Text font size can be reduced to fit it. In most case the Text is too big to fit with a given font so have to reduce the font.

Answer 1

I played around with it a bit and found this solution (assuming that the RectangleF rect and string text are already defined):

StringFormat stringFormat = new StringFormat()
{
    Alignment = StringAlignment.Center,
    LineAlignment = StringAlignment.Center
};

using (Graphics g = this.CreateGraphics())
{
    SizeF s = g.MeasureString(text, this.Font);
    float fontScale = Math.Max(s.Width / rect.Width, s.Height / rect.Height);
    using (Font font = new Font(this.Font.FontFamily, this.Font.SizeInPoints / fontScale, GraphicsUnit.Point))
    {
        g.DrawString(text, font, Brushes.Black, rect, stringFormat);
    }
}