Illustrator On screen measurement question
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- ntslide
One of my old engineer bosses is crazy old school and walks around with a slide rule and a pair of micrometers measuring printouts of all my products for minute tweaks and whatnot.
Today I was working on a bag and he busted out the micrometer and started measuring a strap distance on my screen.
Is there a way in illustrator to have the on screen image represented in actual units?
Right now I have a piece of fabric that is 3" long coming up just shy of 2.5" when the screen view is set at 100%.
Not sure this is possible but it'd make the old timer freak out if I could make the on screen image 1:1
Thanks!
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- monospaced0
Aside from trial-and-error determining the exact percentage zoom to attain 100% accuracy, I don't know. Interesting because Acrobat allows you to enter your screen's dpi so that it displays mock-ups 1:1. This is a feature I'd like seen built into the next CS.
- I guess you could just open it in Acrobat after setting the "custom resolution" in its display preferences. Or just memorize said number <monospaced
- ... just memorize that number
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- monNom0
Try measuring the size of your monitor horizontally. then divide the horizontal resolution by that width to get your actual DPI. Multiply by 100 and then divide by the target system DPI (likely 72 dpi). should give you the proper percentage.
- or show rulers, and zoom in/out till the units match a real world ruler.uan
- doesnotexist0
print it out
- horton0
lol @ measuring on a screen with a ruler.
show him the Measure Tool in Ai, it's really quite useful.
- Amicus0
Hope the crazy old guy hasn't scratched your screen, cause that could throw off future measurements by goodness knows how many microns.