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Adobe Illustrator - (Mac) AI-CS4 Units


Expert: Amy - 10/6/2009

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Hello again, Amy. One more question tonight, OK?
I'm always measuring line widths (in copy, trade- and copyright marks, little stuff...) in my files to make sure everything's at least .005" thick to be screen printable. Usually I want units to be in inches, but the customer file is in mm, so I go to "Units" in "Preferences" to change it and find that it's already on inches!? So I have to click on some other unit like picas, close the box, then go back into "Units" and click on inches. If "Units" is already pegged on inches, why isn't the file in inches? And is there some fast way to change Units without having to do as I've described above?
Marianne


Answer
Isn't Ctrl-Click equal to right click anymore?
-A

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Ha! Again, this happens to me, too!
I suppose it has something to do with honoring the (customer's) file's setting but keeping your global prefs set to inches... for when you open your next doc.

Hit Crtl+R to show your rulers, right click on one of rulers, and you'll see all your choices. That's faster than going to prefs, yes?

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I guess that doesn't really solve the part about Stroke units, though, does it?

-A

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