Illustrator On screen measurement question
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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.
- 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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