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| 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 |
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| Date | 2015-08-31 00:32 -0500 |
Cross-posted to 3 groups.
> > > 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. :/
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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
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Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-08-30 17:24 -0500
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Re: Simple/basic free screen ruler and graphic editor for Mac OS X? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-08-31 00:32 -0500
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