Custo grid for scale measure?

Patrick Bell
over 10 years ago

I am tying to use the custom grid as a scale bar but it I can't seem to make it match the ruler or the guideline preset. These show correctly yet the custom grid, even though set to 0.001 gridlines per millimetre (which I would expect to draw 10cm squares to scale) doesn't seem to match any scale. Zooming in to 200% doesn't double the size for 100%.

 

Have I misunderstood the use of this tool? I want to be able to show a scaled dimension whatever size the printout. A scale bar would work but the grid looked good for this

  • 0 over 10 years ago
    Hi Patrick,
    I can't follow what you have done.
    However, I have found that the grid and ruler track as expected in
    PhotoPaint X6
    The only kink in the system is that I have to set units for the ruler
    first -- inches, millimeters, whatever. The grid must then have the same
    units.
    I set them as follows:
    Tools > Options > Documents > ruler. Set units and spacing.
    Tools > Options > Documents > grid. Set spacing.
    Keep in mind that these settings only apply to the opened document.
    They are not global.
    Phil

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