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From: karl AT aspodata DOT se
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Subject: Re: [geda-user] adventures using arrows (for documentation), or cross my lines
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Edward Hennesy:
> On Mon, Jul 9, 2018, at 1:49 PM, vovka (vzhbanov AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 02:55:28PM +0200, karl AT aspodata DOT se wrote:
...
> > You can mitigate the issue a bit by using a smaller line
> > width. The smallest width is 1, since 0 means "default width"
> > which is really 10. E.g. use the following path definition line:
> > 
> > H 3 1 0 0 -1 -1 1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 4
> 
> There is an issue with a line width of 0. Some backends interpret it
> as the the thinnest line they can represent. It would result in
> high-DPI printers making a very thin line.

That is reasonable, the other interpretation would be that no line
is printed; having 0 == default width => 0 > 1 is not a good thing.

> I’d like to suggest a fourth option:
> D, Add another line style “TYPE_NONE” where the line is not drawn.

I would not support that idea, better is to have no default width and
instead of writing 0 in the line width column, write a real width
like 5 or 10, and let 0 in effect be either "as thin as possible" or
"no line".

Regards,
/Karl Hammar

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