Re: Ruler
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- Subject: [mg94260] Re: Ruler
- From: "sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2008 06:58:52 -0500 (EST)
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Joshua, You can set the rulerbar units in the Preferences panel. I'm not sure about this but I always assumed the distances on the rulerbar related to the printed stuff, not to the displayed version. Cheers -- Sjoerd On Dec 8, 1:24 pm, "Solomon, Joshua" <J.A.Solo... at city.ac.uk> wrote: > I have Mathematica 7 for the Macintosh. From the Window menu, I select Sh= ow > Ruler. Sure enough, a ruler appears at the top of the current notebook. I= t > seems to be marked off in centimeters, because it goes from about 2 to ab= out > 24 and a piece of A4 paper is about 21 cm across. However, on my MacBook, > the distance from the 2 to the 24 is only about 14 cm. Magnification, as > shown on the bottom of the notebook, is 100%. How can I get the on-screen > ruler to work properly?