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

•	Choose Canvas Rulers, and choose either Show Rulers or Hide Rulers.

To set the ruler units

1	Choose Canvas Rulers Ruler Options.

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

To change the document origin

To restore the origin

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