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+Do not clip line width when scaling dashes
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+The algorithm to scale dashes was changed to no longer clip the
+scaling factor: the dash patterns now continue to shrink at thin line widths.
+If the line width is smaller than the effective pixel size, this may result in
+dashed lines turning into solid gray-ish lines.  This also required slightly
+tweaking the default patterns for '--', ':', and '.-' so that with the default
+line width the final patterns would not change.
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+There is no way to restore the old behavior.