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Article #406Re: Different line ends/segment ends on dashed line?
From: Scott Willingham
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 19:24
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 19:24
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In article <2440@voodoo.UUCP> das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz) writes: > >I have a need to print dashed lines where the ends of the lines are rounded >but the individual dashed segment ends are square (hope this illustration >is understandable): > > ............. ............ ............. > . . . . . . <-- rounded ends > . . . . . . > ............. ............ ............. > > ^^ > square segments > > >Setlinecap sets all the line ends (both outside ends and segment ends) to be >the same: all rounded or all square. Does anyone know an easy (or not-so-easy) >way to accomplish what I want to do? > >Thanks, > >-- >Debbie Schwartz // das@voodoo.boeing.com // or uunet!bcstec!voodoo!das I would just draw the line segment with square ends and then go to each endpoint and draw small circles of the proper radius. -- Scott Willingham // willing@icsl.ucla.edu . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ucla-cs!ucla-se!pantheon!willing From: willing@pantheon.icsl.ucla.edu (Scott Willingham) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Different line ends/segment ends on dashed line? Message-ID: <6615@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 7 Apr 92 19:24:54 GMT References: <2440@voodoo.UUCP> Sender: news@SEAS.UCLA.EDU Organization: University of California at Los Angeles, EE Dept. Lines: 51