Fred McDavid wrote:

Anyone know what I'm running into here and, ideally, what a good workaround might be (that lets me use vector printing to pdf)?

I make a new document, draw a zig-zag with the line tool, set the line type to dashed and turn the thickness up a bit, then I draw a shaded circle, and, although it looks fine on the screen, the segments of the zig-zag line have "grown" in the print preview (or even when I actually print...which is how I found it) such that a "V" shape becomes a backward "Y" where the left line of the "V" extends to the lower page bound and the right line of the "V" extends to the top page bound. If I delete the circle or switch from vector to raster on the rendering tab of the print dialog, the printing issue goes away.

I noticed this bug in Cairo a while back when we started testing the pdf output. Seems to only happen when the vectors get rasterized. I don't know of a solution but perhaps Carl Worth has more information.

Aaron Spike