(Newbie) Question about rulers in AI...

In AI-10, when I create a new document with custom dimensions, I find the
document outline to have no rhyme or reason with how it is aligned to the
document rulers. In other words, a 5" document begins at 0.5 inches and ends
at 5.5 inches. It's like the outline was just randomly thrown on the canvas.

How do I create a document that begins at x=0 and y=0, to make it easier to
calculate values and perform on-the-fly mathematics?

The canvas seems unnecessarily large for such a small document. But I
digress.

Thanks!

Warren Forsk wrote:
>
> In AI-10, when I create a new document with custom dimensions, I find the
> document outline to have no rhyme or reason with how it is aligned to the
> document rulers. In other words, a 5" document begins at 0.5 inches and ends
> at 5.5 inches. It's like the outline was just randomly thrown on the canvas.
>
> How do I create a document that begins at x=0 and y=0, to make it easier to
> calculate values and perform on-the-fly mathematics?
>
> The canvas seems unnecessarily large for such a small document. But I
> digress.
>
> Thanks!

See the little square all the way on the top left corner?
The one with a small dotted horizontal and vertical line.

That you can use to adjust the position of the rulers.
Double clicking in the square set the rulers at X=0 and Y=0.

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steg