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  1. Subject:     Re: Thick, Dashed line bug in ODF?
  2. Sent:        9/12/96 4:06 PM
  3. Received:    9/12/96 4:06 PM
  4. From:        motion@nbn.com (Arni McKinley)
  5. Reply-To:    ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
  6. To:          OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List
  7.  
  8.  
  9. Ahhh… I see!! Thanks for the feedback.
  10.  
  11. Arni
  12.  
  13.  
  14. >I wasn't going to bother, but...
  15. >
  16. >If they were really taking least common denominator, then they wouldn't
  17. >have implemented it at all.
  18. >
  19. >That said, if they wanted to make dashed lines work on a Mac, it's not as
  20. >easy as saying PenSize(6,6) and doing the same thing.  This is so because
  21. >the pen that is used when drawing a line (with standard QuickDraw) is
  22. >rectangular (or in this case, square), so if the dashed line were along a
  23. >diagonal, it would look really bad.
  24. >
  25. >So if they wanted to improve the dash support to thicker lines and have it
  26. >look right, then they'd have to deal with this problem by writing a
  27. >separate line drawing routine (probably drawing them with polygons -- as if
  28. >it wasn't slow enough as it is).  The complexity mounts.
  29. >
  30. >And then, once they did this, they'd also have to add a feature like this
  31. >to the Windows version of ODF so they would both have the same
  32. >functionality.
  33. >
  34. >_troy
  35. >
  36. >......................................................................
  37. > Troy Gaul                                            tgaul@apple.com
  38. > Apple Computer, Inc.                                   OpenDoc Parts
  39.  
  40. Arni F. McKinley
  41. President
  42. MetaMind Software, Inc.
  43. Mill Valley, CA 94941
  44. motion@nbn.com
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