Hello, i am trying X7 and am having a problem with the Transformation Docker. The increment setting is automatically set to 1mm. This means that the changing arrows only change by the value of 1mm. Of course most of the time one wants to use a much lover setting, say 0.1mm. I cannot see any way of changing this setting. Have looked everywhere. I wonder if anybody here know if it is at all possible to change this setting and if so, where to do it. Many thanks in advance.
You are right on the spot with that issue. But unfortunately Corel removed the decimal values in most of the numeric spinners in the X7 version and made them whole numbers only. Beyond me why they did that though. Maybe they feel you don't need that kind of accuracy??
suku said:Beyond me why they did that though.
There are a lot of things in the X7 release that fall in the “beyond me” category, they could instead try using their software internally before releasing it, where I’m from we call it dogfooding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
suku said:You are right on the spot with that issue. But unfortunately Corel removed the decimal values in most of the numeric spinners in the X7 version and made them whole numbers only. Beyond me why they did that though. Maybe they feel you don't need that kind of accuracy??
This didn't actually change in X7, it was a 1mm increment in X6. Who's to say if 1mm is any worse than 0.1mm. If we changed it to 0.1mm, then other people would complain that the increment is much too small (which means many clicks to move the object a reasonable distance). For those who do need extra accuracy, they can type in any value.
Suku, which controls did we remove a decimal value from?
You could instead try nudge which is a configurable value and better still comes with micronudge and supernudge options..
The default values are not very useful, but you can set better values at tools > options > document > rulers
From http://product.corel.com/help/CorelDRAW/540229932/Main/EN/Documentation/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm#href=CorelDRAW-Positioning-objects.html :
To nudge an object
Suggested values: