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Trail: Creating a GUI with JFC/Swing
Lesson: Working with Graphics

## Using Graphics Primitives

> The next few pages provide the details you'll need to generate primitive graphics and text.

### Painting Shapes

> This page tells you how to paint shapes, such as lines, rectangles, ovals, arcs, and polygons.

### Working with Text

> This page tells you how to use paint text using the `Graphics` `drawString` method. It also tells you how to use `Font` and `FontMetrics` objects to get information about a font's size characteristics.

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