I’ m developing a custom form control with the SlimDx library. I’ d like to mesaure some strings, but I have a problem beacuse the string is mesaured as vertical string. This is the code, what’ s the problem?:

        float FontSize = 8;         string Message = "AAAAA";         SlimDX.DirectWrite.Factory fontFactory = new SlimDX.DirectWrite.Factory(SlimDX.DirectWrite.FactoryType.Shared);         SlimDX.DirectWrite.TextFormat fontFormat = fontFactory.CreateTextFormat("Gabriola", SlimDX.DirectWrite.FontWeight.Regular, SlimDX.DirectWrite.FontStyle.Normal, SlimDX.DirectWrite.FontStretch.Normal,FontSize, "it-it");         SlimDX.DirectWrite.TextLayout layout = new SlimDX.DirectWrite.TextLayout(fontFactory, Message, fontFormat);         SizeF retValue = new SizeF(layout.Metrics.Width, layout.Metrics.Height); 

The result is that height is bigger than width, and if I draw the text with that layout, it is plotted as vertical text.