Functions

Control

Functions to create and destroy the canvas, and other canvas control functions.

Coordinate System and Clipping

Control clipping area, canvas size and unit convertion (mm x pixel).

Primitives

The main drawing functions.

Attributes

Change and query primitives attributes.

Colors

Color handling functions. Include functions to encode and decode colors to CD format, and functions to set and query color attributes.

Client Images

Manipulate RGB (24 bpp) or MAP (256 indexed colors) images that do not depend on the canvas.

Server Images

Manipulate images that depend on the canvas/driver (server) resolution and depth.

World Coordinates

Use the metaphor Window-Viewport to define a World Coordinate System.

Vector Text

Texts are rendered using polylines only. Used in the World Coordinate System.