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Rulers help you accurately place and measure objects in your document. They appear at the left and top of the Document window.
The rulers adjust as you scroll and zoom in the file. The large tick marks indicate the units of measure (such as points), and the small tick marks indicate the increment (such as 16 points).
Page rulers use the document’s current units of measure, set in the Units pop-up menu in the Status bar (Windows) or at the bottom of the Document window (Macintosh). You can define custom units of measure equivalent to meters, feet, yards, miles, nautical miles, kilometers, ciceros, and didots. You define custom units on a per-document basis.
Note: To make custom units available to newly created FreeHand documents, you can add the custom units to a FreeHand template. For more information, see Creating a new default template.
To show or hide page rulers:
Select View > Page Rulers > Show.
This command toggles between showing and hiding the rulers. A check mark indicates that the rulers are visible.
To change the page ruler’s zero point:
Drag the zero-point marker from the upper left corner of the Document window to a new location on the pasteboard.
Note: Zero points can be defined for each individual page in a document.
To reset the page rulers:
Double-click the zero-point marker.
To define custom units of measure:
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Select View > Page Rulers > Edit. |
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In the Edit Units dialog box, create new custom units by typing a new name or accepting the default name. |
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Enter numeric values in the text boxes and use the pop-up menus to select the units upon which to base the custom units of measure. |
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Click Accept. |
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To add more custom units, click the Plus (+) button and perform steps 2-4 for each unit. |
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Click Close when you are finished adding or removing custom units of measure. |
To delete custom units of measure:
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Select View > Page Rulers > Edit to open the Edit Units dialog box. |
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Select the units of measure you want to delete from the Units pop-up menu. |
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Click the Minus (–) button. |
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In the alert dialog box, click OK. Then click Close. |
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