From the course: Illustrator CC 2017 One-on-One Fundamentals

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Points, picas, and other units

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Points, picas, and other units

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- [Instructor] In this movie we'll take a look at the various units of measure that are made available to you by Illustrator and we'll see how they compare to each other. Now you can work with inches or millimeters or what have you, but throughout this course I'll be working with the default unit of measure associated with the US English version of Illustrator, and that's points. And the reason that points are so useful is that they are a very tiny unit of measure and they allow you to precisely measure type and line weights. And so, let's see what that looks like. I'll go up to the file menu and choose the new command. Or again you can press a keyboard shortcut of control + N or command + N on a Mac. And here I am looking at the specs for the document that I created in the previous movie. And as you can see, the unit is set to inches, because that's the unit I used. But by default, once again, the unit is points. Now I want you to see how these are organized, we have five units that…

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