I thought you were supposed to get smarter and wiser each new day, but apparently that's not the case when it comes to me
I kept getting specific dimensions sent to me by customers. They want a .500" high letter.
I just did some vinyl subcontracting and went to pick it up and it noticed it seemed small. Got back to the office, checked it out, sure enough, it's small.
A month ago or so, I had the brilliant idea to switch from point size to inches on the fonts. Brilliant, I thought, because now when I wanted 1" letters, I simply typed in 1", or so I assumed.
I checked my file, surely the letter said it was 1.500" tall. However, the vinyl cutter says it's just over 1.000" tall on his file. Hummm.....
So I just drew up some text, made the text 1.000" tall and measured the dimension using the dimensioning tool. A 1.000" letter "T" appears to measure .72" tall.
Huh? Okay, only thing I can figure is that the 1.000" means that if there were letters such as a lowecase "g" or a "y", then it would mean from the top of the upper case letters to bottom of the lowercase letters.
If that's how it works, then what's the best way to size letters to the specific size. For instance, if I had the word "DOGHOUSE", all capital letters, and I wanted them 1.000" tall. Is there an easy way?
Surely I'm a prime candidate for any medical trials on anything that stimulates brain activity.
Any insight?