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Old April 7th, 2010, 08:49 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
ayudameconpublisher
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Default ruler has incorrect measurements, what am I doing wrong?

http://i41.tinypic.com/24g2ao0.jpg

*zoom 100%
*ruler measurement set to centimeter
and everything is bigger than it is supposed to be. what am i doing wrong
here?
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Old April 7th, 2010, 09:16 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Jaime[_4_]
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Default ruler has incorrect measurements, what am I doing wrong?

You need a bigger monitor )
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"ayudameconpublisher" wrote
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http://i41.tinypic.com/24g2ao0.jpg

*zoom 100%
*ruler measurement set to centimeter
and everything is bigger than it is supposed to be. what am i doing wrong
here?


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Old April 7th, 2010, 09:24 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Mary Sauer[_3_]
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Default ruler has incorrect measurements, what am I doing wrong?

And a better measure, go here. I have this ruler, at 100% zoom it is accurate/
http://wareseeker.com/Home-Shell-Des...1.5.zip/255138

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"Jaime" wrote in message
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You need a bigger monitor )
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida

"ayudameconpublisher" wrote in
message ...
http://i41.tinypic.com/24g2ao0.jpg

*zoom 100%
*ruler measurement set to centimeter
and everything is bigger than it is supposed to be. what am i doing wrong
here?




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Old April 8th, 2010, 12:11 AM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Rob Giordano [MS MVP]
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Default ruler has incorrect measurements, what am I doing wrong?

and an adjustable pixel ruler

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"Jaime" wrote in message
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You need a bigger monitor )
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James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida

"ayudameconpublisher"
wrote in message
...
http://i41.tinypic.com/24g2ao0.jpg

*zoom 100%
*ruler measurement set to centimeter
and everything is bigger than it is supposed to be. what am i doing wrong
here?



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Old April 8th, 2010, 12:12 AM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Rob Giordano [MS MVP]
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Default ruler has incorrect measurements, what am I doing wrong?

or ScreenCaliper



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"Mary Sauer" wrote in message
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And a better measure, go here. I have this ruler, at 100% zoom it is
accurate/
http://wareseeker.com/Home-Shell-Des...1.5.zip/255138

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Mary Sauer MVP
http://msauer.mvps.org/

"Jaime" wrote in message
...
You need a bigger monitor )
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida

"ayudameconpublisher"
wrote in message
...
http://i41.tinypic.com/24g2ao0.jpg

*zoom 100%
*ruler measurement set to centimeter
and everything is bigger than it is supposed to be. what am i doing
wrong
here?





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Old April 8th, 2010, 02:30 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
ayudameconpublisher
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Default ruler has incorrect measurements, what am I doing wrong?

it's not only the ruler that is wrong, the "paper area" is also bigger than
it is supposed to be.
and my monitor is large enough.
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Old April 8th, 2010, 04:10 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Jaime[_4_]
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Default ruler has incorrect measurements, what am I doing wrong?

I think most everyone here assumed you were posting the photo as a joke;
however if you are serious with your question --

The point was, what you see on the monitor has nothing to do with what
prints out, if you had a larger monitor, the ruler would appear larger
(perhaps even correctly scaled), if you had a very small monitor, the ruler
would be way out of scale. Publisher doesn't know what size monitor you are
using and adjust/calibrate the screen accordingly. Suppose, the image was
sent to a projector, as you moved the projector closer or further from the
wall, the size of the ruler will change drastically.

The ruler is there to show you what the printed output looks like.
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James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida

"ayudameconpublisher" wrote
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it's not only the ruler that is wrong, the "paper area" is also bigger
than
it is supposed to be.
and my monitor is large enough.


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Old April 9th, 2010, 02:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
DavidF
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Default ruler has incorrect measurements, what am I doing wrong?

Go your control panel Display properties settings tab advanced. If you
have the DPI setting at 120 dpi then change that to 96 dpi and OK out and
see if that changes the size of your ruler to something that looks better.

DavidF

"ayudameconpublisher" wrote
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it's not only the ruler that is wrong, the "paper area" is also bigger
than
it is supposed to be.
and my monitor is large enough.



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Old April 10th, 2010, 05:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
ayudameconpublisher
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Default ruler has incorrect measurements, what am I doing wrong?

Why is it possible to change the measurement type anyway if it can't be
displayed correctly... All Office programs should use just "units" and not cm
or anything else. Why would you want to see things in cm if the measurements
are not correct.
Can't quite get it. Thanks for the info, though.
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Old April 10th, 2010, 06:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.publisher
Jaime[_5_]
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Default ruler has incorrect measurements, what am I doing wrong?

How would "units" help you know how big something is going to print?
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Homer: "Well good riddance, their drawings sucked and they all looked like
hippies!"

"ayudameconpublisher" wrote
in message ...
Why is it possible to change the measurement type anyway if it can't be
displayed correctly... All Office programs should use just "units" and not
cm
or anything else. Why would you want to see things in cm if the
measurements
are not correct.
Can't quite get it. Thanks for the info, though.


 




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