Unit of measure?

[Keith Jones]

Just started looking for a better editor than nandeck so decided to give cocktail a try. First impressions are good but I have a few questions:

What is the unit of measurement on the layout screen? It seems to start at 1000 by default but a 1000 what?

Is it possible to generate a script and feed that into Cocktail? I realise that’s a very nandeck approach but it’s one I’m comfortable with – generate a script with the base text then adjust it within the software to see what the best layout values are then update the script to reflect those changes.

[Keith Jones]

I’m going to answer this myself.

I suspect that the uom is millimetres but will confirm this after I produce some printed output.

The files which are produced by the gui are mostly xml (good choice) so creating them from a perl script should be pretty straightforward.

[Keith Jones]

Me again 🙂

The base uom is set in the project and can be cm, inch or pixels

[Dan Goodman]

Keith,
Thanks for answering this. I’m sure others will run into the same question.
Dan.

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