From the course: OmniGraffle 6 Essential Training
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Adjust ruler units and scale - OmniGraffle Tutorial
From the course: OmniGraffle 6 Essential Training
Adjust ruler units and scale
I want to talk about units and rulers. And of course, rulers are just these measurements along the top and the sides that allow you to make a size reference to your diagram. Units are a little more interesting though. And this is a spot where OmniGraffle differentiates itself from a lot of other drawing programs, so let's take a close look. In order to adjust this, I need to go to my inspector for canvases, and that's right here. And these are inspectors that deal with the entire canvas. And I've closed everything up except for units, because that's the one that we want to work with. And our top drop down is not that surprising. We're measuring based on pixels, that means that is a measurement of 100 pixels on the ruler. And, if I change this to something else, let's say picas, which was a common measurement in Print World, you'll see that the ruler adjusts to the new unit type. So, that's pretty straightforward, but you may notice that I've got a little bit of a floor plan layout…
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