Peeved at Control Palette Coordinates

[signal49]

I've been annoyed with the way the control palette works in IDCS (I noticed it in PM, too). In Quark, selecting a box and entering X=0 and Y=0 in the measurement palette will put the top left corner of the selected box at the top left corner of the page. I can't figure out the logic behind the coordinates in ID, so I've been hand-positioning everything by eye.

Here's an example:

I select a box that is 3.25" x 2.5" and the coordinates in the control palette are X=1.625 and Y=1.25, which don't make any sense. If I enter X=0 Y=0 the box jumps half off the page. The page ruler is zeroed at the top left corner of the page and if I deselect the box and hover my curser at the corner, it displays the correct coordinates...

Are there settings somewhere to control how this works? Or can someone de-mystify this process for me??

 

[jimoblak]

Pagemaker and InDesign allow you to determine what portion of an element is measured. You can select either corner, side or center of a frame to display its coordinates.

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Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[signal49]

Ohhhh!! It's that little box to the left of the coordinates?? Got it. Thanks!!

 

[Genimuse]

I do with, though, that once you pick a corner, it would stick with that in future launches, as a preference. It's almost never useful for me to know the position of the center of my element, but if it was I could click the center to check. The vast, vast majority of the time, though, I want the upper-left corner.