Cannot make an exact rectangle with high and wide sizes

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May 15, 2024
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When I create a rectangle of 120 x 10 cm I get a 120,0353 cm by 10,0353 cm and cannot fix it to 120 by 10 cm exactly. I try to change the values but I always get decimals... Any idea about this issue?

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

You are right, somehow (probably by me) Use Preview Bounds was activated, turning it off solved it.

Jacob Bugge

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Belialchemist,

Like Monika (almost), I believe it is caused (only) by Use Preview Bounds (General Preferences), if your rectangle has a stroke of 0.1 mm, the combination of which matches the rougue numbers; without a stroke there would be no difference, so the setting could have gone unnoticed for a while with nothing to reveal it.

Ton Frederiks

Correct answer

Community Expert

You are right, somehow (probably by me) Use Preview Bounds was activated, turning it off solved it.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

You are probably working in a Large Canvas document. Illustrator does some special calculations to get objects 10 times larger. This is probably the result of rounding. When I create a rectangle of 120 x 10 cm in a normal size document and copy/paste it into a Large Canvas document, it shows as 120 x 10 cm.