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Inside Macintosh: QuickDraw GX Objects /
Chapter 1 - Introduction to QuickDraw GX


What Is QuickDraw GX?

QuickDraw GX is a programming environment and toolbox for powerful two-dimensional color graphics programming. QuickDraw GX helps you create graphic and typographic objects and display them on a variety of imaging devices, including printers. The QuickDraw GX software architecture is based on objects and is compatible with, but does not require, object-oriented programming techniques.

QuickDraw GX is a large system that provides many benefits. The rest of this section summarizes some of those benefits, in terms of its three principal areas of application: color graphics, typography, and printing.


Subtopics
Color Graphics
Typography
Printing
What QuickDraw GX Is Not

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