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  1. Subject:     Re: Thick, Dashed line bug in ODF?
  2. Sent:        9/16/96 11:34 AM
  3. Received:    9/16/96 11:34 AM
  4. From:        Troy Gaul <tgaul@apple.com>
  5. Reply-To:    ODF-Interest@CILabs.ORG
  6. To:          OpenDoc Development Framework Discussion List
  7.  
  8.  
  9. >Even polygons aren't as bad as you imply. Usually however, it's a
  10. >better tack to draw a single pixel broken line n times with
  11. >appropriate offset. Same trick can be used for caps at the end. X
  12. >Windows does this pretty well.
  13.  
  14. This sounds like it would be pretty resolution-dependent to get good results...
  15.  
  16. >Wouldn't it be nice to have a portable,
  17. >thick dashed line library that does the right thing?
  18.  
  19. Yes, it would, and one could probably be written on top of the ODF imaging
  20. system, but I don't think it should be part of ODF proper.
  21.  
  22. _troy
  23.  
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  25.  Troy Gaul                                            tgaul@apple.com
  26.  Apple Computer, Inc.                                   OpenDoc Parts