 by a similar amount. Commands for drawing the various shapes must exist for all the contexts discussed in the previous chapter. In GEOS, you use the same graphics commands whether you are drawing to a display, describing a GString (which can be sent to a printer), drawing to a bitmap, or describing a path. This simplifies graphics programming a great deal.</P>
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