Re: [Matplotlib-users] bug in saving figure with dashed lines

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Jouni" == Jouni K Seppanen <jk...@ik...> writes:
    Jouni> The draw_lines method in the PS backend divides the line
    Jouni> into subsequences of at most 50 points, and calls the
    Jouni> "stroke" operator for each subsequence, which in effect
    Jouni> resets the dash offset. Thus if 50 consecutive points fit
    Jouni> within a dash, the line appears solid.

50 seems awfully small to me.  There are maximum length path
limitations of some postscript interpreters which is why we batch
these up.  Darren, could we get away with a step of 1000 here rather
than 50?

JDH