I was wondering that are peoples feeling on calibrate the ruler on screen to real-world distance or should I just leave this be.

I do it! What is it good for if you don't? Just make sure that you are using your monitor in it's native resolution and if you have one of them new nice twice as wide as high monitors :), I wish you good luck!

 Thanks, Alfred.

Hey Simon,

I never do that, but I can't give you an intelligent reason why.   I guess it's just not something I ever use in the work I do.  Maybe I'll give it a try...

Rob

Since I use CorelDRAW as my graphics tool for printing T-Shirts (Direct-To-Garment), I want to see what the design looks like at a true one to one, just to make sure there are no glitches in what will be printed on the shirt(s). So, I do set my environment so that when I select 100% zoom, I am looking at a relative true size graphic, i.e.: one inch on the monitor equals one inch on the real world.

I, also have to say, that I do this especially for the graphics files that my customers hand me to print on their shirts. I look for junk to clean up and also how it will print as I have to have a minimum resolution  of about 200 dpi for photos in the shirt print design. 

<insert customer quote> "It looks all right on my computer" </insert customer quote> 

For me, I just took out a ruler and trial and errored until 12 inches of ruler = 12 inches of RULER. Now, If I want to see something one to one on this monitor, I have to remember 34%. It would be nice if I could add that as a zoom preset.

Rikk:

 Menu -> Tools -> Options -> Workspace -> Toolbox -> Zoom,Hand Tool -> Calibrate Rulers...

Once set up there, anytime you select 100%, an inch on the display monitor will equal an INCH.

That didn't work. Now, I have to set to 133% to get an inch.

When I go the route that I stated above (through CorelDRAW) I hold a ruler up to the scale on the screen and adjust the vertical and horizontal spinners (in the upper left corner) until the scale on the screen matches the scale on the ruler.

In the case of my SamSung SyncMaster 204B, that works out to be 100 DPI, both horizontally and vertically. 

It used to work with a regular monitor 1280x1024- however I just got a larger widescreen monitor and it only works for the width and not the height. Now I end up with something like 8.5" wide by 9" long .

Is anyone successful with calibrating wide screen monitors?

I think I may be taking this one back if not.

Thanks,

Ken

Hi

This  works perfectly for me & now I can have 1 inch on monitor = real world 1 inch in CorelDRAW.  Note that on calibrating rulers in this manner when I select 100% from the drop down menu the display turns to real world but the dropbox shows 81%. Cant figure out why ?

Anand Dixit:

I have calibrated my display & to me it shows the actual print size on screen. Try doing this.

To get horizontal No. of pixels : (Enter this value for calibrating Horizontally)

Actual horizontal display size of your monitor in inches / horizontal resolution set for display

To get Vertical No. of pixels : (Enter this value for calibrating vertically)

Actual Verticle display size of your monitor in inches / Verticle resolution set for display

Quote from another thread on same topic

Link : http://coreldraw.com/forums/p/6324/23354.aspx#23354

 This feature is very useful to me when doing cad like work. For instance, I recently installed a window in a wall of my son's bedroom. Using a scale of one inch = one foot, I was able to plan things in real world size. After creating objects and placing them at known distances, I was then able to deterined unknown distances using the dimension too (with snap options on). - Scotty

Rikk, you have to check the box that says "Zoom relative to 1:1" in the options dialog box, when you do that your 100% will be a real world 100%.

You can add the shortcut key to that, just go to Options and look for "Customizations>Commands>View>Zoom 1:1" you can add a shortcut key or a button to a toolbar.

Hi K_graham,

I work with a 22" widescreen monitor, 1680x1050 pixels and my rulers calibrated just fine.

However, I found that when I use millimeters or centimeters as my default measurement units,I could not calibrate correctly.  I changed my default page units to inches and then went to calibrate my rulers.  My horizontal and vertical worked out at 89.9 pixels per inch.  I switched my default units back to millimeters and it works just fine. 

I'm using inches as default. Actually according to the method it calibrates but then when I actually work and have a business card or 8.5x11 letterhed up it is only correct on the horizontal dimension.

I searched for this and see its in a later version though the info is exactly how I try to calibrate but mine is Corel 12.

I did try Corel X4 but was really miffed that to specify a Pantone color I seemed to have to find it in a chart of a few thousand where as with Corel 12 I could just type in a number in a Dialogue box that seemed to be missing on X4. I wonder if X3 is like X4 in that regard or like 12? Also if the ruler calibration is both directions in X3 and X4 and only 1 in Corel 12?

Ken