13.2. Drawings
As you've learned, the abstract Geometry class represents a shape or a path. The abstract Drawing class plays a complementary role. It represents a 2-D drawing; in other words, it contains all the information you need to display a piece of vector or bitmap art.
Although there are several types of drawing classes, the GeometryDrawing is the one that works with the geometries you've learned about so far. It adds the stroke and fill details that determine how the geometry should be painted. You can think of a GeometryDrawing as a single shape in a piece of vector clip art. For example, it's possible to convert a standard Windows Metafile Format (.wmf) into a collection of GeometryDrawing objects that are ready to insert into your ...
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