Document units

Document units allow you to set a physical measurement unit for your document that suits your way of working, whether imperial, metric or in pixels.

As you create a new document, its document units will be set depending on the preset chosen. For example, presets for A-series page sizes will use millimeters as default, while US page sizes and photo page sizes use inches; for web-related page sizes, pixels are used.

You'll encounter document units when you're:

At any time, you can change your document units. The setting is saved with the document.

If you're using document scaling, the reported units will be those of the scaled document.

To set your document units for new documents:
  1. On the File menu, select New.
  2. From the New Document dialog, choose a preset, which sets the document units for that preset type.
  3. (Optional) From the Document Units pop-up menu, change the unit type if needed, e.g. millimeters to centimeters.
View Tool Zoom Tool To change your document units at any time:

Do one of the following:

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