[X4U] "Actual Size" in Adobe Creative Suite

[Nick Scalise]

On Saturday, July 17, 2004, at 09:19  PM, Stroller wrote:

> On Jul 18, 2004, at 1:18 am, Nick Scalise wrote:
>
>> On Saturday, July 17, 2004, at 07:12  PM, Stroller wrote:
>>
>>> In Adobe Creative Suite, I have my artwork set to "View" at "Actual 
>>> Size". When I measure it on the screen with a ruler, I find that 
>>> it's about 75% of actual size. Is there a way to tell either my Mac 
>>> or Adobe what size my monitor is, so that it'll actually damn 
>>> display correctly..?
>>>
>>> I could, of course, fiddle with View at 125%, 128%, 132% or whatever 
>>> until I get it right, but that's annoying - I really shouldn't have 
>>> to do that.
>>
>> I believe actual size is at 72dpi. Set your monitor to 72ppi. If you 
>> have a 17, that's usually 1024x768, etc.
>
> That's annoying. I have a pair of old but very serviceable 20" CRTs 
> from SGI, rebadged Sonys, in fact. They run at 1600 x 1200, a 
> resolution which is very comfortable for everything else that I do. I 
> can not see myself reducing the resolution of everything else I do to 
> fit in with the little illustration I blunder with.

Agreed. But looking at it from their view, how else will they know what 
your monitor is set at?

Back in the day, monitors had fixed resolutions and 'WYSIWYG' truly was 
(on Macs that is) 'what you see is what you get'.

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Nick Scalise
nickscalise at mac.com