Re: Ruler
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- Subject: [mg94364] Re: Ruler
- From: "Solomon, Joshua" <J.A.Solomon at city.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:45:06 -0500 (EST)
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That doesn't work either. What occupies "13 cm" according to Mathematica's ruler only occupies 8.5 cm when printed. On 09/12/2008 11:58, in article ghlmhb$kb8$1 at smc.vnet.net, "sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com" <sjoerd.c.devries at gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > > 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?