Illustrator CS6 - Edit artboards to have lower left corner 0,0

Question

When you setup your lower left corner of the page to be 0,0 (Edit Artboards) and you turn on the rulers it shows that the Upper Left corner is in fact 0,0 which puts all your artwork in a negitive Y coordinate!  In Illustrator CS4 did not have this problem!  Any suggestions would be welcome!
Thanks,
JerryM789

Answer 1

Jerry,
They have reversed the Y axis (in CS5 onwards). But you can unreverse it and get back to what you are used to.
To change the ruler origin (and direction of the Y axis) in CS5 - CC(2014) to be the same as in CS4 and earlier, you may:
A) Install and run the script in the OP of this thread,http://forums.adobe.com/thread/890507?tstart=30
or
B) Manually change the relevant preference settings as follows:
0) Close down Illy (you can only change the preference file with Illy closed);
1) Find and open the AIPrefs (Win speak) or Adobe Illustrator Prefs (Mac speak) file withe a text editor like Notepad or TextEdit; the preference file is a (hidden) file in the (hidden) folder Adobe Illustrator CS5 Settings
2): Find and change the following two bits of code:
/isRulerOriginTopLeft 1 >>> /isRulerOriginTopLeft 0 (change 1 to 0)
/isRulerIn4thQuad 1 >>> /isRulerIn4thQuad 0 (change 1 to 0)
This is a global change so you only have to do it once (just as you can undo it once).
You may find the file here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/preference-file-location-illustrator.html