Dash It All! -- Lines in FM

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

I'm running FM 7.1 and futzing helplessly with some rectangles that have
dashed lines that I wish to convert to solid lines. I know there are
workarounds, such as redrawing the rectangles from scratch, but I also
want to know how dashed lines get applied, how to restore solid ones,
and WHY attempts to change the setting are proving futile. I suspect
it's something simple having to do with my combination of settings, but
the results feel very random.

For example, when I select the rectangle, set fill to none, line width
to 0.2, I get a solid red line. When I change the color to black, it
becomes dashed again. When I set the pen to solid, the lines look solid
in FM, but print as dashed in the PDF. 

When I set the pen to none, I see all my dashed lines in FM, but no
amount of tinkering appears able to make them solid again. When I choose
solid on the Set Dashed Line Pattern button on the graphics toolbar, the
rectangle remains dashed. Same thing when I choose the Make Line Solid
button at the top of my screen (the one with the checkmark on top of the
solid line).

Closing FM and reopening doesn't seem to resolve either.

Any help on what to do would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Jim
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