|  |  | 4.5 Line width, line dash pattern, and arrows

## 4.5 Line width, line dash pattern, and arrows

The Line toolbar permits setting the dash-dot pattern (solid line, dashed, dotted etc.) as well as the width of lines. This has effect for the boundaries of path objects, such as polygons and polygonal lines, splines, circles and ellipses, rectangles and circular arcs. It does not effect text or marks.

Line width is given in Postscript points (1/72 inch). A good value is something around 0.4 or 0.6.3

On the same toolbar you can set the current arrow mode and arrow size. Only polygonal lines, splines, and circular arcs can have arrows.

Arrows are by default drawn as triangles in the stroke color. Note that they extend beyond the endpoint of the line by an amount linear in the line width. If that is a problem, you can duplicate the object, give one copy the arrows and line width zero, and move the endpoints of the other copy slightly so they fall in the interior of the arrows of the first copy.

|  |  | 4.5 Line width, line dash pattern, and arrows