[libreoffice-users] Re: Empty Rulers in Draw

You nailed it! I had the scale set very high - 40:1. Guess I'll just 
have to play with scale vs unit of measure vs page size to be able to 
use the rulers.

Thanks for your help!
Al


On 7/19/2015 9:03 PM, Brian Barker [via Document Foundation Mail 
Archive] wrote:
> At 20:36 19/07/2015 -0700, Al Nuwer wrote:
>
> > On 7/19/2015 8:18 PM, Brian Barker [via Document Foundation Mail
> > Archive] wrote:
> > > At 19:49 19/07/2015 -0700, Al Nuwer wrote:
> > > > I started a new file in Draw where the rulers looked OK - had inch
> > > > increments displayed. I later opened it to continue work on it,
> > > > but the rulers are empty - no increments displayed, just blank rulers.
> > >
> > > I think this happens naturally if the unit of measurement is
> > > sufficiently large, so that all the incremental marks will be so
> > > far apart that they are off the display.
> > >
> > > > How do I get the measurements to display?
> > >
> > > Go to Tools | Options... | LibreOffice Draw | General | Settings |
> > > Unit of measurement - and choose something other than kilometre or 
> mile.
> > Thanks Brian, but that's not the problem. I have the Unit of Measure
> > set to inches - just like it was yesterday when I initiated the file
> > and the incremental marks displayed.  Any other thoughts?
>
> The other explanations I can think of are:
>
> o Your drawing page size is correspondingly smaller - so as to
> produce the same effect.
>
> o You have Drawing scale (in the same Options dialogue) set
> sufficiently high - perhaps 10:1 or whatever. If you change this, I
> think you may need to save and reopen your document to see the
> effect; this corresponds to your original problem description.
>
> Brian Barker
>
>
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