Does anyone know if there is way to see the "actual size" of the page. Not the full scale, but by the inches. I want to see if the font size I chose for an 8x8 is too small--without printing it off. When I choose 100% it's WAY bigger than 8 inches. I got my ruler out and tried to get the ruler on the screen to match up, but never did get it quite right. Am I making any sense??? LOL

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Jill R

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There is actually a ruler feature on DIP Go to View>rulers then it will display which ever option you have it set for on the bottom left of the screen (ie. inches, pixels, millimeters, or centimeters)

HTH

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I just judge it by how it looks on the 18% size. It's all relative. If it looks in proportion on the screen then it will print in the same proportion.

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Kim

I can't remember where I read this, but it works for me (PSCS).

Using a lightweight see thru ruler and the with the ruler of my LO visible, I played around with the % view until the LO ruler closely approximated the real ruler lightly laid against my screen against the LO ruler. By doing that I found that 28% on my monitor is very close to 1:1. So, now when I'm working and want to check something I use 28%...

Every monitor is calibrated differently and based on that calibration is what you are seeing. So 100% in PSCS doesn't equal 100% when printed out since I have a very high res monitor.

Hope that makes sense. I think I found this in the Photoshop Users Technical Forum... it's worked for me every time. And have I saved paper and ink since.

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Susan
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Thanks Susan - that's a real help!

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