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Quickdraw GX

Quickdraw GX

Quickdraw GX was an object-oriented device-independent 2D imaging library for the Macintosh, similar to Display Postscript or GDI+ but with a geometry engine, or to Java2D but a decade earlier. It may have been the first graphics system to support perspective transformations, unicode, and international line layout on a desktop computer.


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GX wasn’t just an imaging library, it was also a highly customizable printing architecture. The two were so tightly integrated that you got full WYSIWYG printing on both PostScript and non-PostScript printers.

The GX graphics architecture was not only very powerful, it was also very fast.

Posted by: Lawrence D’Oliveiro at August 29, 2003 06:45 AM