Hello, in Athens i cannot use a subpixel information stored in current StrikeFont(s), because i cannot guarantee that glyphs will be drawn using same orientation and will always match pixel grid on destination form (surface). Therefore, a subpixel 16bpp color map which currently StrikeFonts using makes no sense because you cannot guarantee that 1 pixel in glyph form maps exactly to 1 pixel on screen. I need to render fonts as an alpha transparency mask, so then i could use them to render using arbitrary color + arbitrary scale & rotation. Guys, could you help me, what you are using for converting a truetype fonts to raster? -- Best regards, Igor Stasenko AKA sig.