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AxisLine MajorGrid drawn out-of-bounds

Observed behavior: Consider this very simple .gnumeric file: tickmarks.gnumeric

  1. Focus on the red lines, i.e. the MajorGrid attached to the top X AxisLine. One of the lines is drawn out-of-bounds, rather obviously so, trampling on the Y tick labels, as shown in this screenshot: tickmarks

  2. What's even weirder is that if you export the chart as a .svg file and open it with inkscape, a great many grid lines are drawn out-of-bounds, not just outside the plotting area but outside the entire graph object area, as shown here: out-of-bounds

[Note that exporting as .png does not produce anything outside the graph object area. In other words, symptom 1 applies to .png output but symptom 2 does not.]

Expected and desired behavior:

MajorGrid lines should behave like MajorTicks. That is, if they're not within the bounds of the plotting area, they shouldn't be drawn at all.

Platform: This is observed with the latest version '1.12.48' compiled from freshly-pulled git sources. OTOH it is not a new bug; it is also observed with a years-old version '1.12.38'.

Gnumeric and ssconvert are affected equally.