Ability to change measurement type under "Art Board Options"
When an artboard is selected, and ART BOARD OPTIONS menu is active, you can only see measurement in whatever type is already selected DOCUMENT SETUP - i.e. if you get a file that someone built under millimeters, but you work in pixels, inches etc, you have to close the OPTIONS and go back to DOCUMENT SETUP and start over. I have to check art board sizes dozens of times a day and I have to back up many times. A drop down menu under ARTBOARD OPTIONS to change measurement type would be helpful.
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Rick, do you mean you first go to the Artboard Options first instead of the Document Setup first, and it irritates you when you realize you forgot to change local units and now you have to close one dialog and open another?
And therefore you propose to ignore the scope paradigm and allow to change units for the whole document from the local dialog?This will make it even more convoluted than it is now... Remember, there is another 'Units' parameter, a global one, in Preferences: Units, and it changes units across ALL opened document... and there are a lot of users who don’t even know about.
I understand the pain and the frustration it causes for you. Sadly, changing the units can’t be recorded as an action, and local units can’t be changed with a script — only manually...
So building a new habit seems to be the only viable workaround.Anyway, I vote for this, because this mess with the units doesn’t please me and I want it to be changed.
