I have coded tBlurText overriding "Paint" as below:

Still I can see the blurred image clipped...

Any help tweaking the code so that the blur image is completely within
the text's bounds.

The code is in VB.NET
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Imports System.Text
Imports System.IO
Imports System.Drawing.Text
Imports System.Drawing.Drawing2D

Imports UMD.HCIL.Piccolo
Imports UMD.HCIL.Piccolo.Util
Imports UMD.HCIL.Piccolo.Nodes
Imports UMD.HCIL.Piccolo.Event
Imports UMD.HCIL.Piccolo.Activities
Imports UMD.HCIL.PiccoloX
Imports UMD.HCIL.PiccoloX.Nodes
Imports UMD.HCIL.PiccoloX.Events
Imports UMD.HCIL.PiccoloX.Util
Imports UMD.HCIL.PiccoloX.Handles
Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.FileIO

Public Class tBlur
    Inherits PForm

    Public Sub New()
        Dim tT As New tBlurText("My Text to be blurred!")
        Canvas.Layer.AddChild(tT)
    End Sub
End Class

Public Class tBlurText
    Inherits PText

    Private Shared grphcs As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(New
Bitmap(1, 1))

    Public Sub New()
        MyBase.New()
    End Sub

    Public Sub New(ByVal aText As String)
        MyBase.New(aText)
    End Sub

    Public Sub New(ByVal info As
System.Runtime.Serialization.SerializationInfo, ByVal context As
System.Runtime.Serialization.StreamingContext)
        MyBase.New(info, context)
    End Sub

    Protected Overrides Sub Paint(ByVal paintContext As
UMD.HCIL.Piccolo.Util.PPaintContext)
        Dim g As Graphics = paintContext.Graphics

        If Me.Brush IsNot Nothing Then
            g.FillRectangle(Me.Brush, Me.Bounds)
        End If

        If ((Me.Text IsNot Nothing) And (Me.TextBrush IsNot Nothing)
And (Me.Font IsNot Nothing)) Then
            Dim renderedFontSize As Single = Me.Font.SizeInPoints *
paintContext.Scale
            If (renderedFontSize < PUtil.GreekThreshold) Then
                g.FillRectangle(Me.TextBrush, Me.Bounds)
            ElseIf (renderedFontSize < PUtil.MaxFontSize) Then
                Dim renderFont As Font = Me.Font

                If (g.DpiY <> grphcs.DpiY) Then
                    Dim fPrintedFontRatio As Single = grphcs.DpiY /
100
                    renderFont = New Font(Me.Font.Name, Me.Font.Size *
fPrintedFontRatio, Me.Font.Style, Me.Font.Unit)
                End If
                'g.DrawString(Me.Text, renderFont, Me.TextBrush,
Me.Bounds, StringFormat.GenericTypographic)

 
'*********************************************************
                Dim k As Integer = 4
                Dim dRect As Rectangle = New Rectangle(Me.X, Me.Y,
Me.Width, Me.Height)
                Dim bw, bh As Integer
                bw = CInt(Me.Bounds.Width / k)
                If bw < 1 Then
                    bw = 1
                End If

                bh = CInt(Me.Bounds.Height / k)
                If bh < 1 Then
                    bh = 1
                End If
                Dim bm As Bitmap = New Bitmap(bw, bh)
                Dim g1 As Graphics = Graphics.FromImage(bm)
                g1.TextRenderingHint = TextRenderingHint.AntiAlias
                Dim mx As Matrix = New Matrix(CDbl(1 / k), 0, 0,
CDbl(1 / k), 0, 0)
                g1.Transform = mx
                'g1.DrawString(Me.Text, renderFont, Me.TextBrush,
Me.Bounds, StringFormat.GenericTypographic)
                g1.DrawString(Me.Text, renderFont, Me.TextBrush,
Me.Bounds, StringFormat.GenericTypographic)
                g1.Dispose()

                'The destination Graphics uses a high quality mode
                g.InterpolationMode =
InterpolationMode.HighQualityBicubic

                'and draws antialiased text for accurate fitting
                g.TextRenderingHint = TextRenderingHint.AntiAlias

                'The small image is blown up to fill the main client
rectangle
                g.DrawImage(bm, dRect, 0, 0, bm.Width, bm.Height,
GraphicsUnit.Pixel)
                'g.DrawImage(bm, dRect, 0, 0, Me.Width, Me.Height,
GraphicsUnit.Pixel)

                'finally, the text is drawn on top for Text Glow
effect
                'g.DrawString(Me.Text, renderFont, Me.TextBrush,
Me.Bounds, StringFormat.GenericTypographic)

                bm.Dispose()
 
'*********************************************************

            End If
        End If
    End Sub

End Class

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