At 12:13 4/20/2001, John Horn (Home) wrote:
>... so can anyone offer up some
>advise on POM coordinet system, or maybe recommend a good pain killer cause
>my head hurts.
One of the smartest things I did some time ago, was to create a grid that
looks like graph paper when printed. I might be able to dig the code out of
archive sometime next week. If I recall correctly, it drew verticle and
horizontal lines every 10 picas and a blue line every 100 picas (I think
that's the unit POM uses). I may have drawn thicker lines for margins &
such, too. Just a couple of simple loops with drawLine(), I believe.
Then, when aligning stuff, I would print the content, place it on top of
the grid and hold them up to the light.
Even better, I used to have a ruler that was measured out in picas and
other print units. I really should go find another such ruler.
As for the negative numbers, could it be relative to the print margins
rather than the paper size? It's been a while, but I don't see where you're
getting or setting the margins. Sorry I don't have a more detailed answer,
but I can't get to Director at the moment.
--
Mark A. Boyd
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