Transforming An Object Relative To Its Position

[v_kyr]

38 minutes ago, GarryP said:

where I use “x+10” and “w/2 px”

Though for "x+10 px" or "w/2 px"  etc. it won't with an applied UOM here, thus the whole parsing is usage oriented, pretty inconsequent and confusing implemented for certain aspects.

[GarryP]

Yeah, confusing.
I’m not sure what “w/2 px” would do – e.g. divide the width by 2 pixels? - but “x+10 px” (or any other UOM) should definitely be allowed, especially if you want to temporarily override the document’s UOM. For example, a document might be measured in inches but some elements might be measured in millimetres for convenience.
Does anyone have any objections to me reporting this as a bug?

[v_kyr]

53 minutes ago, GarryP said:

I’m not sure what “w/2 px” would do – e.g. divide the width by 2 pixels?

Since the document used units are shown there as defaults in that fields, in this initial case probably a document size setup in pixels is used as default. So for “w/2 px” I would here expect then, the half doc width sized in pixels. - For other expressions with units, then the math related operation dependent on the given unit measures. Thus for "x * 10 px" I wouldn't expect that to be the same x position as "x * 10 mm". Here then also a corresponding unit size conversion from one to the other then would be internally needed for given units.

However, that's how I would usually expect and interpret expr entries for those fields. But as we already noted, some things work others do not dependent on an UOM usage or not then, thus I think parsing is not consequent equally used here and thus maybe sometimes undetermined in behavior.

[walt.farrell]

For another example, given an artboard that is 2000px in width, in a document setup as 300DPI, w+(2 in) gives you an artboard that is 2600px in width.

[Gear maker]

6 hours ago, GarryP said:

FYI my mac gives the same results.  I had been suspicious when you show column C didn't work, but I couldn't get it to work either.

Yes I think a bug report needs to be done due to the inconsistency of operation.

[GarryP]

A bug report has been created:

I put it in the Windows section but have noted that it's on OS X too.