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Parameter: *Display-Tolerance*

*display-tolerance* number
Default tolerance used in approximating non-cubic or rational

Nurbs:
curves with cubic beziers for display with PDF and GWL web-based image displays (PNG or JPEG). Smaller values give better display fidelity for very small objects at the expense of speed, larger values sacrifice display fidelity for better speed. Default value is 0.01, which should give decent performance but might give distorted rendering for extremely small objects. This could be made to be somewhat adaptive, i.e. resetting itself on the fly to a smaller value when dealing with smaller curves. Please let us know if you think this would be useful.

Note that 3rd degree non-rational curves do not require approximation and are not affected by this paramter.

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