Transforms
Page units are useful for specifying things conveniently and letting the Graphics object sort it out, but there are all kinds of effects that can't be achieved with such a simple transform. A transform is a mathematical function by which units are specified and then transformed into other units. So far, we've talked about transforming from page units to device units, but a more general-purpose transformation facility is provided via the Transform property of the Graphics object, which is an instance of the Matrix class from the System.Drawing.Drawing2D namespace:
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