A Comment on Stroke Width. When you draw a solid line and then change stroke width it looks like a a simple width change is occurring. However, when you choose a different stroke style
You mean pattern?
and then change stroke
width then it is clear that the line is actually scaled rather than simply having its width changed.
You mean, the length of the dashes is also changed? This is obviously as designed - the dashes are defined in the units of stroke width. I find this quite convenient, although now that I look it up in the SVG spec, this does not seem to be conformant behavior:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#StrokeProperties
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----- Original Message ----- From: "bulia byak" <archiver_1@...19...> To: <vellum@...68...> Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 4:44 AM Subject: [Inkscape-devel] RE: stroke width and test, test, test.
A Comment on Stroke Width. When you draw a solid line and then change stroke width it looks like a a simple width change is occurring. However, when you choose a different stroke style
You mean pattern?
Yes.
and then change stroke width then it is clear that the line is actually scaled rather than
simply
having its width changed.
You mean, the length of the dashes is also changed? This is obviously as designed - the dashes are defined in the units of stroke width. I find
this
quite convenient, although now that I look it up in the SVG spec, this
does
not seem to be conformant behavior:
I find it convenient also. However, there are times when I would like only the width to change and not the length as well. In the figure above, line A is a pattern stroke at width=1.00. B is what happens when width is changed to 10.00. I would like to get to C at times. Is this possible from A? I guess I can get it with specific svg coding but that is fiddly. I have seen that some programs do have individual settings for stroke width and stroke length.
A beginner learning Inkscape may intuitively feel that 'stroke width' means 'stroke width' rather than 'stroke width and length' or 'scale'. Trial and error teachs but we don't yet have this documented do we? Not a big deal.
vellum
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/painting.html#StrokeProperties
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