Photoshop's Vertical Rulers are a different Length than Horizontal Rulers

[edenc58026269]

I have just noticed that the units in the vertical rulers in photoshop are a different length than the horizontal rulers. For example, in a 14x11 inch image at 300 ppi, if I zoom at 29% I can literally measure my screen with a real-life ruler and see that the horizontal inches correspond precisely with the real-life ruler but the vertical inches do not. The vertical inches are longer than the horizontal inches. My pixels are square, fyi. 

I asked Adobe tech support about this and they said that every version they checked did the same thing. They concluded that it was "by design" though they were at a loss to explain it.

WHY? Why on Earth would this be the case? I use Photoshop for illustrations that are meant to be printed and it is totally inconvenient to not be able to preview the actual aspect ratio of my art. There is a NOTICEABLE stretching effect. I hate it. Make it go away. Please.

[Michael Bullo]

I just dug out a ruler and measured a square in Photoshop 2022 on a MacBook Pro laptop. It's perfectly square for me.

Could this be a monitor thing?

[Barbara Ash]

I'm not able to replicate the issue.

[edenc58026269]

Possibly, but the tech did confirm that they saw the same thing. It's happening on my much newer PC. My iMac doesn't do it but it's a dinosaur and uses an older version of Photoshop.

[Michael Bullo]

Our sample set is extremely small but could this be a Windows vs Mac thing?