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Technical Q&As: Carbon
Carbon is a set of C APIs that take advantage of new features and enhancements of Mac OS X, including protected memory, preemptive multitasking and dynamic resource allocation, as well as the Aqua interface. The Carbon printing APIs are a collection of system software functions that an application can use to print to any type of supported printer.

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CGContext Bounds (HTML)
QA1048: Explains how to determine the bounds of a CGContext.
2001-07-02
CGContextAddLineToPoint, CGContextAddCurveToPoint, et. al. (HTML)
QA1049: Explains why the CGContextAddXYZ APIs don't draw anything immediately.
2001-07-02
CGContextClosePath (HTML)
QA1046: Explains when you should call CGContextClosePath.
2001-10-02
Checking for the Printer Driver (HTML)
DV42: Describes a legacy Mac OS technique avoiding system hangs when using serial drivers on USB systems.
2000-06-19
Drawing a Path Multiple Times (HTML)
QA1047: Explains that path drawing operations consume the path.
2001-07-02
How do I use PMSessionGetGraphicsContext to get a CGContextRef? (HTML) ()
QA1216: Describes how to use PMSessionSetDocumentFormatGeneration and PMSessionGetGraphicsContext to get a CGContextRef for printing.
2003-02-25
How to measure CG text (HTML)
QA1051: Explains how to measure Core Graphics text.
2001-07-02
Printer Queue vs. Printer Name (HTML)
QA1407: Explains the difference between a printer queue and a printer name.
2005-01-27
Quartz 2D Interpolation (HTML) ()
QA1186: Explains how to control Quartz 2D's image interpolation.
2002-10-29
Quartz 2D Thread Safety (HTML) ()
QA1238: Explains the thread-safety issues for the Quartz 2D API.
2003-02-25
Saving the current Core Graphics Path (HTML)
QA1056: Explains that the Core Graphics save and restore GState APIs do not affect the path.
2001-10-02
SCSIAction and IOSCSIUserClient on Mac OS X 10.2 (HTML) ()
QA1201: Describes migrating to a new API for SCSI Parallel devices starting with Mac OS X 10.2.
2002-09-13
Turning Off Core Graphics Clipping (HTML)
QA1050: Explains how to clear the clipping path for a CGContext.
2001-07-02
Unexpected CG state changes (HTML)
QA1045: Explains why the Core Graphics drawing state sometimes changes for no apparent reason.
2001-07-02