Find Out All About Mac OS X's Fabulous Quartz Graphics Layer

1999–2004March 26, 2002Macs Only!Mac OS
Quartz is comprised of a high-performance, lightweight window server and a graphics rendering library for two-dimensional (2D) shapes. The rendering model of Quartz is based on the cross-platform Portable Document Format (PDF) standard, enabling developers to easily embed and manipulate PDF data within any Mac OS X application. Click here for links to more details.

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