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add sources of nondeterminism outside the control of matplotlib.
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For SVG output, the ``svg.hashsalt`` rc parameter has been added in an
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-earlier release. It can be used to change some random id values in the
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-output to be deterministic, at the cost that including multiple such
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-SVG files in one document can lead to collisions.
+earlier release. This parameter changes some random identifiers in the
+SVG file to be deterministic. The downside of this setting is that if
+more than one file is generated using with deterministic identifiers
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+and they end up as parts of one larger document, the identifiers can
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+collide and cause the different parts to affect each other.
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These features are now enabled in the tests for the PDF and SVG
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backends, so most test output files (but not all of them) are now