How to change image size defaults

[iVan_B.@adobeforums.com]

Hi all

I have a burning question. In CS4, when I use the Image Size command, the default units are centimetres instead of inches under Document Size part of the dialog box.

I know that keeping rulers set to inches will change that default, but I distinctly remember the time when I was able to keep my rulers set to pixels, and my Image Size to inches at the same time.

Something changed at some point and I can't figure out what. How can I keep my rulers set as pixels, but the Image Size dialog box to inches at all times?

-iVan

[Free...@adobeforums.com]

You set both independently in Preferences > Units & Rulers

[iVan_B.@adobeforums.com]

Units & Rulers option of prefs dialog box is already set to "Rulers: pixels". Still, when I open the Image Size command, the "Document Size" section of dialog box is expressed in cm, not inches.

If I change the "Rulers: pixels" to "Rulers: inches", then the Image Size command changes to inches as expected. But I want the rulers to be set at pixels and image size dialog to inches, like it is on my other computer (and like it did on this one in the past).

[Free...@adobeforums.com]

Hmmm...you're right and I was wrong. Setting rulers to pixels does indeed seem to lock units to cm here too.

I wouldn't know an inch if it came up and introduced itself, but I certainly wouldn't like it if it was the other way round...

[iVan_B.@adobeforums.com]

Yeah, I know what you mean with the whole inch thing; I took my time getting used to a new system of measurements when I moved to Canada (which, by the way is "officially" using metric system these days, but no one seem to have bothered to tell the population here).

1 in = 2.5 cm... Sorta... Kinda...

Hah! I tried making a brand new document using cm for size on my other computer, and now the other one is locked up on cm as well. Then I tried creating a new doc using inches to revert back (with a smug grin on my face, thinking I cracked the problem). Still stuck on cm (?!)

Dagnabit!

I guess once I change to cm, there's no turning back. I might as well move back to Europe :-)

I tend to get very stubbornly stuck on little bugs like these. Sounds to me I'll be wasting some time figuring this one out. Last one took me 5 days. Five days I'll never get back.

I'd probably waste them anyway.

[Free...@adobeforums.com]

I tend to get very stubbornly stuck on little bugs like these.

Yes, I remember, I was around back when the CS4 lag was all the rage on this forum...you nailed that one pretty good... XD

[iVan_B.@adobeforums.com]

Good memory, Freeagent

But I got us off the topic; here, I decided to illustrate a problem for those in the know:

In this image you can see my Image Size dialog box is stuck on cm even though my rulers are set to pixels. How can I change my Image Size setting to default on inches without changing the ruler units?

On my other PC, it works like it should.

[iVan_B.@adobeforums.com]

Problem solved by a fellow 'shoppist at another forum. He suggested changing the regional settings in control panel and restarting a computer, as he felt that was the culprit. Well, regional settings did it indeed - caught red handed AND with a thong in a purse.

Allow me to paraphrase a rant I already vented on the aforementioned forum: See, I'm in Canada. That means we're officially metric by executive decision. Only, no one ever bothered to tell us, the mindless minions, so we still scurry about our busy little lives oblivious to the existence of a centimeter, while fully engaged in an affair with an inch (or more).

Whoops, pardon - here in Canada it's spelled centimetre.

But every once in a while someone here will stub their toe on a stray "centimeter" (I'm trying to get fired from being a Canadian). And when that happens, since we can't actually see them, we just stare into an empty half-inch space wondering what possibly could have caused a hiccup in space-time continuum.

Microsoft had other plans though. It planted the invisible centimeters into the operating system that are triggered by regional settings. Settings that are officially metric, even if in reality they don't exist, just like the Hobbits, ET's and southern democrats.

OK, rant is over!

[dave_...@adobeforums.com]

don't feel bad ivan. couple years back nasa lost a multi-million dollar martian explorer/rover (i believe it was the beagle mission) because someone forgot to calculate from metric to english and back when determining how much distance was left between the earth and the ground during landing! retro rockets that were supposed to fire at something like 400 feet, instead fired at like 40 ft. and instead of a nice soft landing, that sucker plowed into the planet HARD!

so... it could have been worse. :)

[David_E_...@adobeforums.com]

Something a NASA engineer would not put on their resume.... lol

[Anthon...@adobeforums.com]

Wasn't there a problem with the Hubble telescope in the early days as a result of something similar?

Anthony.