Programming with Quartz

David Gelphman is a senior software engineer on Apple's Graphics and Imaging team. He has over 20 years of experience working with the PostScript and PDF imaging model that is at the heart of Quartz graphics. His computer career began with scientific computing while he was earning his PhD in experimental particle physics at Stanford. Apple's introduction of the Macintosh in 1984 caused him to make a sharp turn into the world of user-friendly computing and he hasn't looked back.While working at Adobe Systems, David co-designed Apple's LaserWriter 8 printer driver and was team lead of the development project. At Adobe he also worked closely with third party developers, taught PostScript programming, wrote a number of technical notes, and contributed to the evolution of the PostScript language. After leaving Adobe he continued to combine software engineering work with documentation for software developers, authoring an article for Apple's develop technical journal in addition to a number of Apple technical notes. Today David writes system software for Mac OS X but continues to be involved with third party documentation and enjoys writing sample code for developers outside of Apple. Bunny Laden is a senior technical writer for Apple Computer who writes documentation for Mac OS X technologies, including Quartz, Core Image, and Quartz Composer. She has won technical writing awards for a number of Apple documents— QuickTime VR Authoring Studio, Handling Unicode Text With MLTE, Supporting Printing in Your Application—and for the book Learning Carbon (O'Reilly & Associates). In her former life as an academician, she authored articles on a number of topics including music cognition and musical acoustics. 24 years of professional programming, primarily focused on modeling tools and geometric algorithms. Employers include Digital Equipment Corporation, Apple, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Digital Domain, and Industrial Light + Magic. Formed and lead groups specializing in these areas as well as in physics simulation.Film Credits: Oil & Vinegar, 102 Dalmatians, Disney's Magic Lamp, Mickey's Philharmagic, Reign of Fire, Kangaroo Jack, Chicken Little, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.ACM Siggraph, IEEE.M.S. in Computer Science, University of Washington.

Preface; 2. Introducing Quartz 2D; 3. Quartz 2D Drawing Basics; 4. Using Quartz 2D in Cocoa; 5. Using Quartz 2D in Carbon; 6. The Quartz Coordinate System and Coordinate Transforms; 7. Drawing with Paths; 8. Color, Alpha Transparency, and the Quartz Graphics State; 9. Data Providers and Data Consumers; 10. Drawing Images; 11. Image Masking; 12. Working with PDF Documents; 13. Quartz Memory Management Concepts; 14. Creating Bits; 15. Text; 16. Advanced Drawing Features; 17. Supporting PostScript Input Data; 18. Performance and Debugging; 19. Cocoa Application Topics and Tips; 20. Carbon Application Topics and Tips; 21. Python Drawing and Quartz 2D; 22. Using Quartz in Unix Tools; Appendices