A. SDK for Perspective Drawing

In addition to the full set of tools for drawing in perspective provided by Adobe Illustrator, the program provides a rich set of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in its Software Development Kit (SDK). These can be used by the third-party developers to create new and interesting plug-ins for working in perspective.

This appendix describes these APIs and points to keep in mind while developing using them.

There are two new public suites available for perspective functionality, the AIPerspectiveGridSuite and the AIPerspectiveTransformSuite.

AIPerspectiveGridSuite

This suite includes the APIs that deal basically with the definition of the Perspective Grid in the document. Following are the APIs that make up ...

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