Man ... I fell old.
Picas, points ... all standard print measurments over a century old. Typically used in typesetting.
1pt = 1px (not originally, but that's the way it pans out in digital measurments). 12pts = 1pica. 6pica or 72points = 1 inch.
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Man ... I fell old.
Picas, points ... all standard print measurments over a century old. Typically used in typesetting.
1pt = 1px (not originally, but that's the way it pans out in digital measurments). 12pts = 1pica. 6pica or 72points = 1 inch.
Because there is no correlation between mm/cm/inches and pixels / points.Quote:
Originally Posted by Markp.com
there is with Picas.
Also I am used to working with inches so usually everything like bleeds and spacing, margins, etc... is in 1/4, 1/8 or 1/16 of inches.... or decimals... .25, .125, .0625.. I hate those...
so I figure a Pica (or 1/6 of an inch) is a nice dimension. I will just use that instead of fractions of inches for layouts now.
Now my world seems simpler.
2, 1, 0p6. That's making more sense to me. :)
Heh. Just realised: 12 points is equal to 1 pica, right? It's probably derived from the measurement Pico, which is 10^-12 (one trillionth).
I design in mm for print, but then again if I'm printing huge artworks, like big advertisements, I usually go for cm's. On one occasion the canvas was so huge, I had to make it in 20*5meters.
Fonts in points though. Always.
Uh oh. Once picas start to make sense, it's all over.Quote:
Originally Posted by admedia
Way back in the dark ages, i started in print production, and i swore by picas. It's a much more accurate measurement system, and much easier once you understand it (divide 11" by 3, or 66p by 3).
I traded picas for pixels years ago, but every now and then i do some print, and it's all about picas.
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I have taken 3 or 4 Desktop Publishing classes throughout my schooling and all have required us to use Pica's while designing.
That's the beauty of it. You don't really have to trade pixels for picas.Quote:
Originally Posted by dlowe93
It's part of the same system now. :cool:
damn, i don't understand a word of what you guys are saying :)
I've actually never worked in picas. Strictly inches for docs and points for type. For the web I use all pixels. Illustrator allows for a little math in its pallets so I never had to memorize a lot of conversions. Most all printers deal with a pretty standard set of sizes anyway.
Yes. Thank you Adobe.Quote:
Originally Posted by admedia
Although my CSS developers get all cranky when i hand them template spec files laid out in picas.
Whatever.
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You know it never even occured to me until nowQuote:
Originally Posted by dlowe93
that I can use them in CSS?
nice one! :thumbsup:
sometimes I think you can do anything in CSS, just about everytime I cant figure something out, I find that it accepts natively the type of data I was trying to fake anyway.