Speaking of precision, can’t but recommend a free script to round color values in a selection, using a set precision. Great for trimming fractional values when needed.
https://github.com/gau/rounding-color-values

Allow edit artboard in properties menu to accommodate 3-4 decimal places rather than rounding it off.

Can we please have option to use only two decimals on units.
We use millimeters and four decimals is waaaaaay too much. Two is just enough. Example what we have now 1200,0000 mm, 1200,00 is what we want.

Tommi Koski Tarrateksti **

It would be nice to be able to configure the number of decimals we want to work with in Adobe Illustrator. There is a total inconsistency in the number of decimals that Illustrator currently works with, since the artboards have 2 decimals, the object transformation before version 24.1 had 3 decimals, after 24.1 4 decimals, etc. It is very uncomfortable to work with such a variety of decimals, it is also not accurate.

It would improve the workflow and accuracy by being able to manually configure the decimals we want to work with.

Hope that helps. ;)

I don't understand why we don't have this decimal problem in Indesign. Why does Illustrator has to round it up?

I'd even suggest 4 decimal places to get perfect 16ths (.0625)

I really want 4 decimal places to be the standard across all Adobe CC programs. How else could we get a perfect 16th (.0625)?

The issue in particular I have is that artboards only have 2 decimal places in inches. Float that ****** out to 3.

The ability to design in ONLY whole number, giving us a checkbox to disallow decimal values for size & transform.

I spend much time correcting the decimal values that pop up randomly while designing and it is rather frustrating. It would be great to have a way to allow ONLY whole number values in location & size. See attached. this happens with .5 values as well as things like .812 which make it really tough trying to align!

Thanks for the answer, I hope you will bring it to a logical solution flexible and consistent.

Thanks for compiling this and sharing details of your workflow. It definitely helps us understand the issue better.

As we gather, there are two parts to the issue - one, there are different decimal limits in different places, and two, this difference is leading to precision related problems when you use scale factor in your measurements. For the first part - it would have been easy to solve, if we had just one unit to deal with. Illustrator handles 8 different units simultaneously and each have their own logical scales. Units like Pica or Q/Ha, or even Inches, require a different treatment than mm/cm. An input in one unit, has to be converted with its best possible accuracy to the working unit. This is not to say that anomalies do not exist. And as you've pointed out in the examples, there are different decimal inputs limits in different places.

What we are thinking is to build a consistent decimal limit, for each unit in all places. But it would still be possible to see different decimal limits for different units. Maybe, we even expose decimal control for different units, in the UI. Maybe.

For using scale factor, building a consistent decimal limit for each unit, should solve the problem to an extent, but ideally there needs be a different solution for that problem and we're exploring different possible options around that.

When creating a new document, Illustrator CC rounds a dimension of 6.125" to 6.13". This is incredibly frustrating as a packaging designer, where accuracy is important.

Why does this interface not honor more decimal points?