j_illustrator Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Hi, I'm a bit confused about the size of the brush. In the top panel the size is in px and in the stroke panel it is in pt. It took me a while to find out that the size is the same but just the unit of measure is different. Is there a possibility to have the same unit for both panels? Regards Jochen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted October 26, 2016 Staff Share Posted October 26, 2016 Hi j_illustrator, Welcome to the forums. The Brush tool is displayed in PX, but the Stroke panel is getting it's measurement settings from your Document Setup. If you Open Preferences > User Interface, uncheck the option Show Lines in points and Close. You can now open Document setup and change that to pixels or something else if you wanted and the Stroke tab will update. Hope this helps. L Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j_illustrator Posted October 26, 2016 Author Share Posted October 26, 2016 Thanks a lot! Worked well. BTW thanks for AD, really fantastic tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 A small by the way. A point is a unit of typographic measurement. The size is usually 1/72nd of an inch. My recollection is that when Apple began developing the Mac as a desktop publishing and graphics platform, the display was 72 square pixels per inch, for greater compatibility with page layout. As far as I can tell, the new retina display doubles that. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fixx Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 As far as I can tell, the new retina display doubles that. Way more, Apple's retina displays in Macs are about 220 ppi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gdenby Posted October 26, 2016 Share Posted October 26, 2016 Way more, Apple's retina displays in Macs are about 220 ppi. Thanks for the note. I worked thru the math on the display info, and get a 26.7" diagonal ay 220 ppi, which is pretty close to the specified 27". I was going by the info I was seeing from the Preview screen captures, which is reads 144. The app prefs say 1 pt = 1 pixel. Quote iMac 27" Retina, c. 2015: OS X 10.11.5: 3.3 GHz I c-5: 32 Gb, AMD Radeon R9 M290 2048 Mb iPad 12.9" Retina, iOS 10, 512 Gb, Apple pencil Huion WH1409 tablet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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