I am a longtime Freehand user, and only have initially started to learn Illustrator. The current project I am working on requires me to set us a series of rectangles with a .0001 tolerance. The Mac I am using for this project is not my own, and the owner (who inherited it) does not have the Illustrator manuals. Can some one tell me how to key in he dimensions I need?
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Window > Transform
That should open the transform window. From there you can enter in sizes and coordinates.
Hope thats what your looking for
That should open the transform window. From there you can enter in sizes and coordinates.
Hope thats what your looking for
Hmmmm, I thought this one was a bit curly so I asked some people who know a lot more than my and here are two of the replies I got:
The vector programs that allow you to enter such stupid values - fake it (like Corel and Freehand). They don't really have that degree of accuracy.
-Paraphrased, Terri Pettit
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Presumably that means "+/- 0.0001"
That means when you enter 0.0010, it had better output somewhere between 0.0009 and 0.0011. That's a joke, I hope. No leading zero... tee-hee.
+/- 0.0001 is crazy-overkill for things you're going to do with a drawing program. What, you're going to run 7-mil Mylar through your inkjet? Sheesh, it isn't a CAD program! In theory Illustrator is something like six decimal places, but I'm sure several calculations it does are not. Orders of magnitude... tee-hee.
You could guarantee +/- 0.0001 pixels in Photoshop, and that would probably work.
I used to do circuit boards; the cheap ones were +/- 0.005, and the good ones were +/- 0.002. There's so much creep when you add aditional processes (like step&repeat), that you want to minimize error at each step, so everyone tried to keep it all spot-on, but you would charge more to guarantee it. Still... Illustrator... 0.0001 It's a new cable TV show, right? Where's that hidden camera?
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The vector programs that allow you to enter such stupid values - fake it (like Corel and Freehand). They don't really have that degree of accuracy.
-Paraphrased, Terri Pettit
and
Presumably that means "+/- 0.0001"
That means when you enter 0.0010, it had better output somewhere between 0.0009 and 0.0011. That's a joke, I hope. No leading zero... tee-hee.
+/- 0.0001 is crazy-overkill for things you're going to do with a drawing program. What, you're going to run 7-mil Mylar through your inkjet? Sheesh, it isn't a CAD program! In theory Illustrator is something like six decimal places, but I'm sure several calculations it does are not. Orders of magnitude... tee-hee.
You could guarantee +/- 0.0001 pixels in Photoshop, and that would probably work.
I used to do circuit boards; the cheap ones were +/- 0.005, and the good ones were +/- 0.002. There's so much creep when you add aditional processes (like step&repeat), that you want to minimize error at each step, so everyone tried to keep it all spot-on, but you would charge more to guarantee it. Still... Illustrator... 0.0001 It's a new cable TV show, right? Where's that hidden camera?
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