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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X?
Date: 31 Aug 2015 01:20:23 GMT
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On 2015-08-31, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> In article <ae6dnfKtyNczH37InZ2dnUU7-QWdnZ2d@earthlink.com>, Ant
><ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
>> > > 
>> > > What is a good simple/basic screen ruler (to measure pixels on screen)
>> > 
>> > What is it that you want to do with such a ruler? Is it to measure on 
>> > one home screen (which you can easily know the res of and roll your 
>> > own ruler for) or is it for something portable for different screens 
>> > with different resolutions?
>> 
>> Yes, but measure parts on the screen like icons, graphics, 
>> (font/text)s, etc.
>
> As before and above ... different screens with different resolutions
> will give different measurements. So that makes measuring things
> on-screen with a pixel ruler is pretty pointless (literally) these
> days.

Free Ruler at least lets you specify the dpi of the ruler.

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