Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:32:24 -0500 From: ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) Subject: Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.systems,comp.sys.mac.graphics References: <310820151625147798%YourName@YourISP.com> User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/4.1.3-200.fc22.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:32:24 -0500 Lines: 41 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.103.224.66 X-Trace: sv3-j6h5hDE0vuKAEoLm5AZaYYxo/JNK06E16Buz3iPyXQvbIGqfdZ6skSX5aBPO6umumHUp5SjOnHARvrt!EZ1L+XDpDrZ26osBRv6T7y2KE55AX3bHUjckptGiP1grhGel+Qz8fMNVPfh7OCg5WHRzhfPJTarr!D9/CTt1oix9D8fFaRtfhjDDgM9jzRSE= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3626 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:31597 comp.sys.mac.graphics:219 > > > 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. > > > > Take a screen grab (Shift-Apple-3), load that into pretty much any > > graphic editor and either just crop it to the object or measure it with > > whatever tools available (for example, my old version of ColorIt! tells > > you the size of the selction, so just selecting something give you the > > size). At worst, you could zoom in and physically count the pixels. > Well, not a bad idea! But Shift Command 4 is the one needed. Then, > when it lands on the desktop (can be arranged), just Command I to get > info on it, the pixels wide and high are given. The way I have is I have multiple screen rulers all over my desktop measuring parts for one image. It is like drafting or something. :/ -- Quote of the Week: "... Alice's honesty felt like fire ants on his skin..." --Dilbert's 7/12/2015 comic strip's panel #4 Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link.