Bug 112140 - printed dotted lines too similar
Summary: printed dotted lines too similar
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: kst
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 1.x
Platform: Debian stable Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kst
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Reported: 2005-09-07 03:19 UTC by Jochen Garcke
Modified: 2005-10-21 23:54 UTC (History)
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printout to file (26.16 KB, application/postscript)
2005-09-07 04:06 UTC, Jochen Garcke
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Description Jochen Garcke 2005-09-07 03:19:52 UTC
Version:           1.2.0_devel (using KDE KDE 3.3.2)
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages

If one prints black/white plots of color graphs (or sets the lines to dotted lines or dashed lines) the dots/dashes have the right distance on the screen but not in the printout. Same with the "save eps in vector format" option for saving.

The distances between dots/dashed seems to be fixed but should depend on the output device.
Comment 1 Jochen Garcke 2005-09-07 04:06:04 UTC
Created attachment 12490 [details]
printout to file

picture to show the unwanted behaviour. Two of the graphs are dashed/dotted but
in the picture this is not really visible.
Furthermore, I just realize that the cross in the legend is rather small...
Comment 2 Andrew Walker 2005-10-19 20:11:33 UTC
I don't think there's any simple solution to this problem as we are using the Qt pen styles to get the desired line style. This seems to use fixed lengths for the various dots, dashes, and spaces. If anyone has a solution (other than drawing all the dots and dashes explicitly) please attach it to this bug report. 
Comment 3 Andrew Walker 2005-10-21 23:54:51 UTC
For performance reasons we don't want to draw the line style ourselves and there is no ability to modify the line style beyond what is made available in Qt.