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Quartz technologies are at the heart of the Mac OS X graphics and windowing environment. Quartz 2D is a two-dimensional drawing API that leverages the Portable Document Format (PDF) drawing model and allows developers to to achieve many of the visual effects used in the Mac OS X user interface, including translucency and drop shadows. Quartz Composer is a development tool for processing and rendering graphical data. PDF Kit allows applications to display and manipulate PDF documents. Core Image and Core Video support, respectively, image processing and video image manipulation. Quartz also provides low-level system services such as window buffering and composition, event handling and dispatch, display management, and text rendering.
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Using Python with Quartz 2D on Mac OS X (HTML)
New article on using the Python bindings in Mac OS X to access the Quartz 2D graphics API.
 2007-07-10
Enhance Your Dashboard Widgets with Quartz Composer Compositions (HTML)
Learn to create a composition and embed it easily in your widgets.
 2007-02-13
Using the ImageIO Framework with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger (HTML)
Learn to access image data using ImageIO.
2006-11-27
Working with Quartz Composer (HTML)
Learn to build a sample composition without having to write code.
 2006-02-13
Tiger Developer Overview Series: Developing with Core Image (HTML)
Learn how Core Image can help you take your graphics development to the next level.
 2005-03-09