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 millimetres 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. These are saved with the 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. millimetres to centimetres.
View Tool Zoom Tool To change your document units at any time:

Do one of the following:

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