What to Read(IM:XP)

Inside Macintosh: QuickDraw GX Printing Extensions and Drivers /: Preface - About This Book

What to Read
This book is intended for developers who are interested in enhancing the printing capability of Macintosh systems by writing printing extensions and for developers who are writing printer drivers for use with QuickDraw GX.
Chapter 1, "Introduction to Printing Extensions and Printer Drivers," provides an overview of the QuickDraw GX printing architecture and how printing extensions and printer drivers work within the QuickDraw GX framework, including a description of how you use printing messages to implement your extensions and drivers.
Chapter 2, "Printing Extensions," describes what printing extensions are and how they work. This chapter provides a tutorial walk-through of a simple printing extension, including descriptions of the code and resources used to implement the extension.
Chapter 3, "Printer Drivers," describes what printer drivers are and how they work. This chapter provides a tutorial walk-through of a printer driver, including descriptions of the code and resources used to implement the printer.
Chapter 4, "Printing Messages," provides a complete reference to the messages that you can override to implement printing extensions and printer drivers. This chapter also provides a complete reference to the constants and data types that you use with the printing messages.
Chapter 5, "Printing Functions for Message Overrides," provides a complete reference to the QuickDraw GX functions that you can call from within your printing message overrides. This chapter also provides a complete reference to the constants and data types that you use with the printing functions.
Chapter 6, "Printing Resources," provides a complete reference to the resources that you can use to implement printing extensions and printer drivers. This chapter also provides a complete reference to the constants and data types that QuickDraw GX provides to represent the resources.