Xara P&DG v17 Page Size Accuracy

[archerdata]

When set to "Inches" ... the level of accuracy is limited to 2 decimal places. For example, I prep a lot of business cards for printing at 300dpi on Heildelberg presses. With bleed, the page size MUST be fixed at 3.625" x 2.125" which Xara rounds up to 3.63" x 2.13" ... which the press operators must manually correct before submitting the job. Is there any way to increase the size to 3 decimal places?

I have tried to convert the "Inches" to "Pixels" at 300dpi, which equals 1087.5px x 737.5px but in so doing, the resolution seems to create other problems.

Is there a solution to this problem that will make the press operators happier? They prefer "Inches" to other measures.

Don

[Fred C]

Hi Don,
Search for "Millipoints" in the Help file.

[Acorn]

Hi Don,
Search for "Millipoints" in the Help file.

Fred, I recall this was raised a few years back and PhilM advised to change the Windows Numbers Format.

In W10, I just used Control Panel > Clock and Region > Region > Formats > Additional Settings > Numbers > Number of digits after decimal: set to 3.

On opening my XDA, yards, feet & inches, metres & centimetres were good to 3 dp; mm & pixels were to 1 dp. Interesting miles and kilometres failed to display.

Acorn

[handrawn]

its a windows thing, the decimal point accuracy, so I go with Phil's advice as per acorn's post

[Acorn]

I worked out why km and mi were failing.

My shapes were just too small to render.
You need to apply a scaling factor to make it all hang together (e.g., 5cm = 1 mi).

Acorn

[handrawn]

that makes sense

[DanFelix]

My Win 10 (1909, 18363.836) does not have those options. I have: Control Panel, Region, Formats, Additional Settings, No. of digits after dec. Curious difference but same result.