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The units of design: Points and picas

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The units of design: Points and picas

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at the various units of measure that are these days made available to you by Illustrator and we'll see how they compare to each other. And believe it or not, this might be the most exciting movie in this chapter. Now, you can work with inches or millimeters or what have you, but throughout this course, I'll be working with the default unit of measure associated with the original and US English versions of Illustrator and that's points. And the reason that points are so useful is that they are a very tiny unit of measure and they allow you to precisely measure type, line weights, and things like the way different strokes line up with each other so that your artwork looks picture perfect. And so let's see what that looks like. I'll go out to the File menu and choose the New command or you have that keyboard shortcut of Ctrl + N or Command + N on the Mac and notice that…

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