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From: Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org>
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Subject: Re: setstrokeadjust: what's the disadvantage?
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 10:43:39 +0100
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ken <ken@spamcop.net> writes:
(snip)
> Higher resolution (and printers do keep increasing resolution, albeit 
> slowly) means more time taken to do scan conversion. If you add stroke 
> adjustment, that takes still more time, and for less and less benefit as 
> the resolution increases.
(snip)

That's interesting, I hadn't realized.

> Unless you are drawing with something like 0 setlinewidth 
> the differing stroke widths will be hard to see.
(snip)

I've usually used 0 setlinewidth to mark the lines I am to cut along
after printing. (-:

-- Mark