Written by members of the development team at Apple, Programming with Quartz is the first book to describe the sophisticated graphics system of Mac OS X. By using the methods described in this book, developers will be able to fully exploit the state-of-the-art graphics capabilities of Mac OS X in their applications, whether for Cocoa or Carbon development.

This book also serves as an introduction to 2D graphics concepts, including how images are drawn and how color is rendered. It includes guidance for working with PDF documents, drawing bitmap graphics, using Quartz built-in color management, and drawing text. Programming with Quartz is a rich resource for new and experienced Mac OS X developers, Cocoa and Carbon programmers, UNIX developers who are migrating to Mac OS X, and anyone interested in powerful 2D graphics systems. This is the definitive guide to the revolutionary graphics system of Mac OS X that uses the Portable Document Format (PDF) as the basis of its imaging model. It contains the latest on Programming with Quartz for Mac OS X version 10.4. Carefully crafted and extensive code examples show how to accomplish most of the drawing tasks possible with Quartz.

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Macintosh news Tiger unleashed. Mac OS X 10.4 in the shops Apple have released Macintosh OS X 10.4 – codenamed Tiger. The new OS X upgrade promises a host of new features including Spotlight, a new search technology that can search every document and application - including e-mails, digital images and calendars - on your hard disk and display detailed information about them including the kind of content, the author, edit history, format, size ad so on.

Very handy for us more disorganised designers. Other features of Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger are Dashboard, which hosts a serious of utilities for viewing information such as sticks and shares, the weather and currency conversions.

Probably of limited use specifically for designers. Also included is a new RSS enabled version of the Safari browser; iChat Av, which lets you video conference, audio chat and send instant messages; and Apple also claim that Tiger has better compatibility with Windows and other operating systems.

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Most importantly for designers, is possibly the new Mac OS X Quartz Extreme, which Apple boast is a much faster method of displaying digital graphics on-screen. Apple's web site claims that allows modern graphics cards, combined with Quartz 2D and OpenGL technology, to deliver unequalled responsiveness for graphics display under OS X Tiger. The lag in resizing Windows under Panther and earlier versions of OS X was of the biggest issues up until now. If this has indeed improved, it will be well received by designers and Mac users alike. Have you upgraded to? Join in the in the discussions about in the.