Corel Painter Help : Working with composition tools, symmetry tools, rulers, and guides : Using rulers
Some features described in the Help are available only in Corel Painter 2020, and are not included in Painter Essentials 7. For more information about Corel Painter 2020, visit http://www.painterartist.com/. To get started with Painter Essentials 7, see the Painter Essentials 7 Quick Start Guide.
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Using rulers

Corel Painter lets you show or hide rulers along the top and left sides of the document window. Each mark on a ruler is known as a tick and represents the selected unit of measurement. You can set the unit of measurement to pixels, inches, centimeters, points, or picas.

As you rotate an image in the document window, the rulers scroll to show the position of the canvas in the document window. The origin of the document is the intersection of the zero (0) ticks on each ruler. By default, the origin is the upper left corner of the canvas. Changing the origin resets the location of the zero ticks on the rulers.

To show or hide rulers Back to Top
To set the ruler units Back to Top

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You can also open the Ruler Options dialog box by holding down Option (macOS) or Alt (Windows) and clicking the ruler.

To change the document origin Back to Top
To restore the origin Back to Top
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