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Please forgive my "passion" regarding this, but having encountered
another need for it...

How is it that a program named "Illustrator" still has no provision for
custom rulers? If I'm drawing something at three-eights scale, I want to
be able to set up a drawing scale and thereafter enter true measure in
dialogs. Yes, I know I can enter math operators in AI's fields, but come
on! I've got to use my ballyhooed gigaflop computer like a $3.95
calculator, just because Illustrator still doesn't have this
unquestionably illustration-approprate feature, which has been present
in FH and Canvas for years?

Yes, I know I can set the Grid to 3/8" major increments with 12
tickmarks between if I want. But this does me no good at all unless I
want to measure by counting grid lines. Neither value fields nor the
rulers nor the readouts in the Info Palette abide by the grid.

Please add a decent document-specific (NOT buried in general prefs as is
the Constrain feature) custom ruler interface in the next version. One
should be able to set several such scales in a document and conveniently
switch between them. For example, it should be possible to switch
between the normal page ruler and the scaled drawing ruler at will.
Again, see FH or Canvas.

And no, I don't want to have to buy such a fundamental illustration
feature in the form of an overpriced plug-in from a small 3rd party
vendor who may or may not keep up with new versions of the host program.

JET