Overview
Quartz 2D is available to all Mac OS X application environments, and provides resolution-independent and device-independent rendering of bitmap graphics, text, and vectors both on-screen and in preparation for printing. Its responsibilities within the graphics layer include:
- Rendering text using Apple Type Services (ATS)
- Displaying, manipulating, and rendering PDF documents
- Converting PostScript data to PDF data, and vice-versa
- Displaying, manipulating, and rendering bitmap images via ImageIO
- Providing color management via ColorSync
- Displaying the elements of the Aqua user interface
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