Display centimeters in Cocoa apps' rulers

Oct 11, '01 03:44:07PM

Contributed by: Kool

To use centimeters in the ruler instead of inches in Cocoa applications, in the file .GlobalPreferences.plist located in ~/Library/Preferences/ add:

<key>NSMeasurementUnit</key>
<string>Centimeters</string>
To see the effect, open TextEdit, make sure you have a Rich Text format document, and then hit command-R to show the ruler.

[Editor's note: I have not tested this, but I'm sure it works. To revert to inches, simply remove the entries from the .GlobalPreferences.plist file.]

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