Re: Gets vertical skylines from grob stencils (issue 5626052)

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On Feb 12, 2012, at 3:40 PM, David Kastrup wrote:

> "address@hidden" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> It'll go up on Rietveld in a couple days unless anyone has any other
>> global suggestions.  Many thanks to Han-Wen, David, and Janek for
>> their feedback.
> 
> What's with the translate_scale_rotate stuff?  You only ever use the
> scale components, and it does not appear like the axis of the transform
> (and consequently of the scale components) are put to any use.  And it
> also looks like this depends on a certain form of the transform matrix
> (not being happy with skew matrices, for example).
> 
> That looks fishy.  What are you trying to do here?

Account for line thickness.  I actually have no clue how thickness works.  Is 
thickness in PS and SVG always added perpendicularly on either side (meaning 
thick/2 on both sides) of the line that is the slope of a curve at a given 
point?

Cheers,
MS