Zeroing the Graphic Ruler

[spb]

FM 6, Mac 9.2

I am trying to exactly duplicate a Header part from one file in a separate file. Normally, I'd use the object size palette and set exact pixel dimensions. But an odd problem has surfaced. The zero point on the Graphic Ruler in Layout Mode (using pixels as units, though changing untits doesn't change the point) seems to be arbitrarily set to a weird place in the new file. In the old file, if I select the header part, the object size shows me that the header is 14 pixels down from the top and 14 in from the left. This looks about right, as the zero point on the scale seems to be in the upper leftmost corner. But in the new file, Object Size tells me that he header is 40 pixels down and 43 in from the left. The zero point is actually visible on the scale.

Nothing I do, option-click, etc., seems to change the zero position. I'm used to Quark & Photoshop where I can click the zero point and drag it anywhere in my document. Double-clicking it will snap it back to upper left corner. Is there something similar in FM that I'm missing?

Steve Brown

[Fitch]

Go to layout mode, to layout setup, and set your margins to zero (or at least set them the same on the layouts you're trying to match).

[spb]

This will work. Thanks. I'd only paid attention to page margin settings when working on a layout intended to be printed. For layouts intended only to be viewed, it didn't seem to matter. I guess that the discrepancy between one file and the next is accounted for by the fact that these files are on a server and have been developed & altered on a variety of machines, dual platform. So a given file's default margins would be set by the monitor & printer settings on the machine it was originally created?

Steve Brown