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Leopard Technical Notes: Graphics & Imaging
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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ColorSync on Mac OS X (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
TN2035: Describes ColorSync, which is fundamentally integrated into Mac OS X.
 2005-08-10
Efficiently using Quartz Composer compositions with QuickTime (HTML)
TN2145: Describes how to best use Quartz Composer compositions in a QuickTime environment.
 2005-07-05
Getting images in and out from Quartz Composer compositions (HTML)
TN2143: Describes how to efficiently pass images into and out of Quartz Composer
 2005-10-04
Image Color Management (HTML)
TN2115: Learn how to properly support color management in your application.
 2006-11-01
Making the most of Cocoa bindings in Quartz Composer (HTML)
TN2146: Describes how to best use Cocoa bindings with Quartz Composer.
 2006-03-03