Ruler units

[jameslbirke]

How do I change the units shown on the rulers from pixels to inches?

Thanks. Jim Birke

[Old Bruce]

2 minutes ago, jameslbirke said:

How do I change the units shown on the rulers from pixels to inches?

Thanks. Jim Birke

Just change the units in the File > Document Setup pane. Go to the upper left where the Horizontal and Vertical rulers meet and control click this is only for the betas.

[v_kyr]

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[walt.farrell]

In Photo or Designer with the View Tool (Hand) selected, use the Context Toolbar "Units" field.

In Designer, you can also use File > Document Setup.

[jameslbirke]

7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

In Photo or Designer with the View Tool (Hand) selected, use the Context Toolbar "Units" field.

In Designer, you can also use File > Document Setup.

Thanks Walt. Now, how do I position the rulers start point at the top left corner of the image?

Jim

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, jameslbirke said:

Thanks Walt. Now, how do I position the rulers start point at the top left corner of the image?

They should be there automatically, unless your definition of image is different from mine

Screenshot?

[jameslbirke]

26 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

They should be there automatically, unless your definition of image is different from mine

Screenshot?

My definition of image is what I see on the screen.
My first attempt at a screenshot wasn't very clear so I used a magnifier to make the screen bigger. Here is a screenshot

Jim

[v_kyr]

Looks odd placed, select the image with the move tool (arrow tool), look into the right side Transform panel and type there for the X and Y coordinates 0 inside. That should move the image to the x,y = 0,0 position on the canvas.

[Old Bruce]

It seems to have no actual dimensions. Kind of like it is 0x0 units in size.

[walt.farrell]

4 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

It seems to have no actual dimensions. Kind of like it is 0x0 units in size.

Good spotting.

There's an Affinity Photo bug that gives you erroneous ruler values when you've rotated the View 90 degrees. You get the wrong value repeated in the horizontal ruler, and a different wrong value repeated in the vertical ruler.

I'm pretty sure I remember seeing the report of that some time ago, and it seems not to be fixed yet, even in the 1.7 Beta.

Perhaps @jameslbirke used View > Rotate Right/Left to try to reset the orientation of an image, rather than using Document > Rotate? 

Edit: If so, try View > Reset Rotation, then Document > Rotate.

Screenshot from the Beta, after rotating the View of an image 90 degrees:

Edited April 12, 2019 by walt.farrell
Forgot to mention how to recover.

[jameslbirke]

Thanks to everyone here for all the help especially on out to change the units of of the rulers. As

I tried all the suggestions to get the zero point of the rulers in the correct orientation to the image. I gave up and closed the image without saving it. I opened the original JPG file and the rulers were correctly positioned. I re-opened the file I was working on and was surprised to see the rulers are in the correct position and reading the correct dimensions. I'm beginning to think that sometimes it's best to close up shop, go have a beer, and come back later.

Jim