Re: Rendering of non-uniform scaled diagonal lines

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Jarek Foksa <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can’t find the relevant section in the spec, but I would expect the stroke to be painted first, before applying group transforms, thus making the stroke look like a parallelogram.
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> The spec defines <line> and <polyline> as "mathematically equivalent to a <path>”. I don't see any reason why they should be rendered differently than <path>.
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> Chrome and the dev version of Inkscape seem to render this graphics correctly, I’m not sure about other apps.

Yup, the Chrome rendering (parallelograms when scaled non-uniformly)
is correct.  Like filters, transforms are a post-painting operation
(thus the stretching), and all shapes in SVG are just shorthands for
some <path> (thus all the elements acting the same).

~TJ