Chapter 14. Custom Views and Graphics Part III

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This chapter continues the discussion of drawing with subclasses of NSView to detail the use of images and text. Cocoa provides powerful tools for drawing images with rotation, transparency, and other effects. Cocoa’s text-drawing capabilities are state of the art, and in many cases, the built-in text-drawing capabilities of Cocoa exceed the features available in expensive desktop publishing applications. This chapter provides an overview of image and text drawing with examples.

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