Ruler(s) ReVisited

[Hwy101]

Okay, another chance to push some knowledge into me ;-) Setting Rulers I see that I (and can get the setting for the top -Horizontal- ruler to run from top -to- left... correctly... and did the pull to get the verticle rule to run from the top left, down the page... but, in looking at the settings... looks backwards... (or, shudder, is it just me and some logic I am missing?) Thanks

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[Hwy101]

Please Mr Moderator - Move to Xtreme Pro - I <blush> somehow Posted, HERE, which of course is the Wrong Spot - SORRY!! Chagrin - Tom

[handrawn]

not sure if I understand correctly or not, sorry

in xara pro the coordinate settings are based on the bottom left hand corner of the page

so setting the origin[0,0 point] as X 0pix Y 0pix will set the 0 positions of the rulers at the bottom left of the page

setting the origin to X 100pix Y 100 pix will move the ruler 0 positions by 100pix one way
setting X -100pix Y -100pix they move the other way

xara calls setting without - in front increases and settings with - in front decreases
you can choose which way round this applies [left or right, up or down] in the cooridinate direction part of the box

hope this makes sense and helps

[Hwy101]

not sure if I understand correctly or not, sorry

in xara pro the coordinate settings are based on the bottom left hand corner of the page

so setting the origin[0,0 point] as X 0pix Y 0pix will set the 0 positions of the rulers at the bottom left of the page

setting the origin to X 100pix Y 100 pix will move the ruler 0 positions by 100pix one way
setting X -100pix Y -100pix they move the other way

xara calls setting without - in front increases and settings with - in front decreases
you can choose which way round this applies [left or right, up or down] in the cooridinate direction part of the box

hope this makes sense and helps

Steve, my pix is of 0,0 at Top Left corner of Page... the -1 pix got me as well as just trying to understand how setting the coordinate worked - Thanks for the explanation... this also explains the way Pro redraws a page after changing the size of the page (I had wondered about too) - guess it's a British way of looking at things. Again, Thanks! Appreciated - Tom

[Albacore]

It is only fairly recent versions that Xara allowed you to change the origin up to
top left hand corner so the co-ordinates giving a negative, I imagine, are still a throwback to that way of working.

[handrawn]

Steve, my pix is of 0,0 at Top Left corner of Page... the -1 pix got me as well as just trying to understand how setting the coordinate worked - Thanks for the explanation... this also explains the way Pro redraws a page after changing the size of the page (I had wondered about too) - guess it's a British way of looking at things. Again, Thanks! Appreciated - Tom

I would guess its mathematical - looking at the page as a 'graph' or 'matrix' the origin point would normally be bottom left - its the way we read geographic map coordinates too...

[Hwy101]

I would guess its mathematical - looking at the page as a 'graph' or 'matrix' the origin point would normally be bottom left - its the way we read geographic map coordinates too...

Dang Steve, there you go being 'Logical' (I never thought about Cartesian coordinates) - ;-^)

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