Strange behaviour with guides and grid set to pixels…

TM
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Thomas_Madsen
Jan 2, 2004
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Hi,

When I set the rulers to pixels and the gridline to 1 pixel increments, the rulers and grid doesn’t match if the grid style is set to lines or dashed lines, but if I set the grid style to dots, they match perfectly. Why don’t they match when the grid is set to lines or dashed lines? It must be a bug, or am I missing something here?

Photoshop 6 doesn’t seem to have the problem but Photoshop 7 and CS sure has.

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Madsen.
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larry
Jan 2, 2004
Are you viewing at 100%?

Larry Berman
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Mathias_Vejerslev
Jan 2, 2004
I believe PS 6 has this problem too. The amount of error is inconsistent between different machines and resolutions. It´s a bug.
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Thomas_Madsen
Jan 2, 2004
Are you viewing at 100%?

They don’t fit together in any zoom factor and they should fit no matter what zoom factor you use. Anything else is very misleading when both are set to pixels.

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Madsen.
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Thomas_Madsen
Jan 2, 2004
I believe PS 6 has this problem too.

Not here. I have PS 6, 7 and CS installed at the moment and only PS 7 and CS does it. In PS 6, grid and rulers fit precisely at any zoom factor.

Photoshop CS:
<http://home18.inet.tele.dk/madsen/photoshop/grid_cs.png> (Same thing in Photoshop 7)

Photoshop 6:
<http://home18.inet.tele.dk/madsen/photoshop/grid_ps6.png>

The amount of error is inconsistent between different machines and resolutions.

Yes I know. I was using a dual G5 with a 23" widescreen TFT running in 1920 x 1200 yesterday. At 1600 % zoom, there was nearly 3 pixels in the rulers for each grid pixel. 😮
Right now, I’m using Windows XP and a 20,1" TFT running in 1600 x 1200 and that’s where the screenshots from above are taking from.

It´s a bug.

Okay.

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Regards
Madsen.

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