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 > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [hidden email] > </user/SendEmail.jtp?type=node&node=4154960&i=0> > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the > discussion below: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Empty-Rulers-in-Draw-tp4154952p4154960.html > > > To unsubscribe from Empty Rulers in Draw, click here > <http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=unsubscribe_by_code&node=4154952&code=YWxudXdlckBjb3gubmV0fDQxNTQ5NTJ8MTU4MzMxMjc1MQ==>. > NAML > <http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/template/NamlServlet.jtp?macro=macro_viewer&id=instant_html%21nabble%3Aemail.naml&base=nabble.naml.namespaces.BasicNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NabbleNamespace-nabble.view.web.template.NodeNamespace&breadcrumbs=notify_subscribers%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-instant_emails%21nabble%3Aemail.naml-send_instant_email%21nabble%3Aemail.naml> > > -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Empty-Rulers-in-Draw-tp4154952p4155029.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
