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Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X?

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In article <ae6dnfKtyNczH37InZ2dnUU7-QWdnZ2d@earthlink.com>,
 ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) 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.

For icons you can tell from the Finder view menu since they are under 
your control. Look at Show View Options... For jpgs and other images, 
you can tell from Get Info and in other ways in imag software. For 
graphics in the process of being made, you can usually use img 
software ruler built into the program, Illustrator for example. For 
windows, it is a bit trickier but there would surely be terminal ways. 

An Applescript way might be something like first put the window you 
want to measure as a front one, (click on it) and then go to the 
script editor and run 

tell application "Finder" to get the bounds of the front window

and it will give you coordinates and from there you could work it out 
or write more script to do the maths (or math as Americans like to 
say, sounds strange to me!).

As for other things (including widows), a low tech solution of sorts:

For width make a simple graphic of a ruler with your resolution built 
into the dimensions, one for height, one for width. 

For example, you can make a very thin vertical ruler image and drag it 
over a browser window. It will go to the far left by default. You can 
then drag many other objects over the browser window, right over to 
near the ruler markings and get the height. Similar thing with 
vertical. 

You could combine both images on the one web browser viewport and then 
you would have both dimensions in the one viewport as a ruler for 
both. Either by making a combined image or putting the two as 
background on an HTML doc and dragging that over a browser window.

If you need help constructing any of these things, just give a shout. 
Oh, and don't forget to not show me in any reply, you would not want 
to be seen too closely associating with me. I quite understand.

-- 
dorayme

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Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-08-18 20:56 -0700
  Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-08-20 18:49 +1200
    Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-08-20 00:57 -0700
    Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-08-22 06:39 -0700
      Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-22 15:24 +0000
        Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-08-23 16:45 -0700
          Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-24 01:13 +0000
            Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-08-28 12:13 -0500
              Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-28 17:41 +0000
                Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-08-28 14:00 -0500
          Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-08-24 14:21 +1200
          Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-08-24 00:32 -0700
            Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? android <here@there.was> - 2015-08-24 13:55 +0200
              Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-24 15:38 +0000
            Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-24 15:37 +0000
              Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-08-25 18:31 -0700
                Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-26 13:53 +0000
                Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Erilar <drache@notchibardun.net> - 2015-08-28 20:24 +0000
          Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-08-29 10:03 +1000
      Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-08-23 10:19 +1200
      Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-08-23 13:12 +1200
  Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-08-29 09:58 +1000
    Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-08-30 17:24 -0500
      Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-08-31 13:14 +1200
        Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-31 01:20 +0000
      Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-08-31 01:13 +0000
      Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-08-31 11:43 +1000
        Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-08-31 16:25 +1200
          Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-08-31 15:17 +1000
            Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-08-31 00:32 -0500
            Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-08-31 13:32 -0400
              Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2015-09-01 07:39 +1000

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