• Cocoa Drawing Support

• The Painter’s Model

• The Drawing Environment

• The Graphics Context

• The Graphics State

• The Coordinate System

• Transforms

• Color and Color Spaces

• Basic Drawing Elements

• Geometry Support

• Shape Primitives

• Images

• Gradients

• Text

• Views and Drawing

• Common Drawing Tasks

• Graphics Context Basics

• The Current Context

• Graphics State Information

• Screen Canvases and Print Canvases

• Graphics Contexts and Quartz

• Modifying the Current Graphics State

• Setting Colors and Patterns

• Setting Path Attributes

• Setting Text Attributes

• Setting Compositing Options

• Setting the Clipping Region

• Setting the Anti-aliasing Options

• Creating Graphics Contexts

• Creating a Screen-Based Context

• Creating a PDF or PostScript Context

• Threading and Graphics Contexts

• Coordinate Systems Basics

• Local Coordinate Systems

• Points Versus Pixels

• User Space

• Device Space

• Resolution-Independent User Interface

• Transform Basics

• The Identity Transform

• Transformation Operations

• Translation

• Scaling

• Rotation

• Transformation Ordering

• Transform Mathematics

• Using Transforms in Your Code

• Creating and Applying a Transform

• Undoing a Transformation

• Transforming Coordinates

• Converting from Window to View Coordinates

• Flipped Coordinate Systems

• Configuring Your View to Use Flipped Coordinates

• Drawing Content in a Flipped Coordinate System

• Drawing Shape Primitives

• Drawing With Application Kit Functions

• Drawing Images

• Drawing Text

• Creating a Flip Transform

• Cocoa Use of Flipped Coordinates

• Doing Pixel-Exact Drawing

• Tips for Resolution Independent Drawing in Cocoa

• Accessing the Current Scale Factor

• Adjusting the Layout of Your Content

• Converting Coordinate Values

• About Color and Transparency

• Color Models and Color Spaces

• Color Objects

• Color Component Values

• Transparency

• Pattern Colors

• Color Lists

• Color Matching

• Creating Colors

• Working with Colors

• Applying Colors to Drawn Content

• Applying Color to Text

• Getting the Components of a Color

• Choosing Colors

• Working with Color Spaces

• Converting Between Color Spaces

• Mapping Physical Colors to a Color Space

• Path Building Blocks

• The NSBezierPath Class

• Path Elements

• Subpaths

• Path Attributes

• Line Width

• Line Cap Styles

• Line Join Styles

• Line Dash Style

• Line Flatness

• Miter Limits

• Winding Rules

• Manipulating Geometric Types

• Drawing Fundamental Shapes

• Adding Points

• Adding Lines and Polygons

• Adding Rectangles

• Adding Rounded Rectangles

• Adding Ovals and Circles

• Adding Arcs

• Adding Bezier Curves

• Adding Text

• Drawing the Shapes in a Path

• Drawing Rectangles

• Working with Paths

• Building Paths

• Improving Rendering Performance

• Reuse Your Path Objects

• Correctness Versus Efficiency

• Reduce Path Complexity

• Manipulating Individual Path Elements

• Transforming a Path

• Creating a CGPathRef From an NSBezierPath Object

• Detecting Mouse Hits on a Path

• Image Basics

• Image Representations

• Image Representation Classes

• How an Image Representation Is Chosen

• Images and Caching

• Caching and Image Data Retention

• Caching Images Separately

• Image Size and Resolution

• Image Coordinate Systems

• Drawing Versus Compositing

• Supported Image File Formats

• Basic Formats

• TIFF Compression

• Support for Other File Formats

• Guidelines for Using Images

• Creating NSImage Objects

• Loading an Existing Image

• Loading a Named Image

• Drawing to an Image

• Creating a Bitmap

• Capturing the Contents of a View or Image

• Drawing Directly to a Bitmap

• Creating a PDF or EPS Image Representation

• Using a Quartz Image to Create an NSImage

• Working with Images

• Drawing Images into a View

• Drawing Resizable Textures Using Images

• Creating an OpenGL Texture

• Applying Core Image Filters

• Getting and Setting Bitmap Properties

• Converting a Bitmap to a Different Format

• Associating a Custom Color Profile With an Image

• Converting Between Color Spaces

• Creating the Target Image

• Using a Custom Color Profile

• Premultiplying Alpha Values for Bitmaps

• Creating New Image Representation Classes

• Text Attributes

• Simple Text Drawing

• Advanced Text Drawing

• Adding Shadows to Drawn Paths

• Creating Gradient Fills

• Using the NSGradient Class

• Configuring the Colors of a Gradient Object

• Drawing to a High-Level Path

• Using the Primitive Drawing Routines

• Using Quartz Shadings in Cocoa

• Drawing to the Screen

• Capturing the Screen

• Full-Screen Drawing in OpenGL

• Full-Screen Drawing in Cocoa

• Disabling Screen Updates

• Using NSTimer for Animated Content

• Using Cocoa Animation Objects

• Optimizing Your Drawing Code

• Draw Minimally

• Avoid Forcing Synchronous Updates

• Reuse Your Objects

• Minimize State Changes

• Using Quartz in Your Application

• Using Quartz Features

• Graphics Type Conversions

• Getting a Quartz Graphics Context

• Creating a Cocoa Graphics Context Using Quartz

• Modifying the Graphics State

• Using OpenGL in Your Application

• Using NSOpenGLView

• Creating an OpenGL Graphics Context

• Using QuickTime in Your Application

• Using the QuickTime Kit

• Using QuickTime C-Based Functions

• Using Quartz Composer Compositions

• Choosing the Right Imaging Technology