• The Page

• Drawing Destinations: The Graphics Context

• Quartz 2D Opaque Data Types

• Graphics States

• Quartz 2D Coordinates

• Memory Management: Object Ownership

• Quartz Performance: A Look Under the Hood

• Creating a Window Graphics Context

• Creating a PDF Graphics Context

• Creating a Bitmap Graphics Context

• Obtaining a Graphics Context for Printing

• Path Creation and Path Painting

• The Building Blocks

• Creating a Path

• Painting a Path

• Clipping to a Path

• About Color and Color Spaces

• The Alpha Value

• Creating Color Spaces

• Setting and Creating Colors

• Setting Rendering Intent

• About Quartz Transformation Functions

• Modifying the Current Transformation Matrix

• Creating Affine Transforms

• Evaluating Affine Transforms

• Getting the User to Device Space Transform

• The Math Behind the Matrices

• The Anatomy of a Pattern

• Colored Patterns and Stencil (Uncolored) Patterns

• Tiling

• How Patterns Work

• Painting Colored Patterns

• Painting Stencil Patterns

• How Shadows Work

• Painting With Shadows

• Axial and Radial Gradient Examples

• A Comparison of CGShading and CGGradient Objects

• Extending Color Beyond the End of a Gradient

• Using a CGGradient Object

• Using a CGShading Object

• See Also

• How Transparency Layers Work

• Painting to a Transparency Layer

• Moving Data Into Quartz 2D

• Moving Data Out Of Quartz 2D

• Moving Data Between Quartz 2D and Core Image

• About Bitmap Images and Image Masks

• Bitmap Image Information

• Creating Images

• Creating an Image Mask

• Masking Images

• Using Blend Modes With Images

• How CGLayer Drawing Works

• Drawing With a CGLayer

• Example: Using Multiple CGLayer objects to Draw a Flag

• Opening and Viewing a PDF

• Creating a Transform for a PDF Page

• Creating a PDF File

• Adding Links

• Protecting PDF Content

• Inspecting PDF Document Structure

• Parsing PDF Content

• Writing Callbacks

• Filling a Callbacks Structure

• Creating a PostScript Converter Object

• Creating Data Provider and Data Consumer Objects

• Performing the Conversion

• How Quartz 2D Draws Text

• Controlling How Text Looks

• Drawing Text

• Measuring Text Before Drawing

• Copying Font Variations

• PostScript Fonts

• See Also