The Graphic Mac » ruler units http://www.thegraphicmac.com Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:30:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 Quickly changing the ruler units setting in Adobe Illustrator http://www.thegraphicmac.com/quickly-changing-ruler-units-setting-adobe-illustrator http://www.thegraphicmac.com/quickly-changing-ruler-units-setting-adobe-illustrator#comments Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:01:25 +0000 http://www.thegraphicmac.com/wordpress/?p=1549 If your preferences are set to show the ruler units in Inches in Adobe Illustrator and you happen to be working on a Web graphic, you can quickly change them to pixels (or several other measurement units) by right-clicking (Control + Click for one-button mouse users) on the ruler and selecting Pixels from the drop-down menu. I can see the use for Points, but does anyone actually use Picas anymore?… Read the rest

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  1. Changing the default font in Illustrator CS
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