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Free Ruler is a screen ruler for OS X with many intuitive features. Great for web developers, graphic designers, and programmers.
Features:
Features:
- A horizontal and vertical ruler which can be used independently or simultaneously.
- Measurement in pixels, inches, picas, or centimeters.
- Automatic alignment of rulers.
- The ability to group rulers and move them around as a unit.
- Shadowless rulers with customizable transparency.
- Interactive tick marks which follow the mouse location for more precise measurement.
- Independent resizing of rulers, from 200
What's New
Version 1.7b5 is a minor maintenance update:
- Universal Binary!
- Recompiled using latest version of REALbasic (RB 2007r1)
- Had to remove transparency support for now - RB2007 doesn't support WindowAlpha plugin..
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
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Free Ruler is a screen ruler for OS X with many intuitive features. Great for web developers, graphic designers, and programmers.
Features:
Features:
- A horizontal and vertical ruler which can be used independently or simultaneously.
- Measurement in pixels, inches, picas, or centimeters.
- Automatic alignment of rulers.
- The ability to group rulers and move them around as a unit.
- Shadowless rulers with customizable transparency.
- Interactive tick marks which follow the mouse location for more precise measurement.
- Independent resizing of rulers, from 200 pixels to 5000 pixels in length.
- Single key shortcuts for most ruler functions.
- Conversion assistant to set ruler resolution based on screen size and resolution.
- Unit converter utility for converting numbers between different units of measure.
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AndrewK714 reviewed on 21 Sep 2011
Really good app, and you can't beat FREE!
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PXL reviewed on 07 Mar 2007
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Crow reviewed on 13 Feb 2007
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JetFireDX reviewed on 29 Jul 2006
Thanks for the work in making this! Just need a universal version now.
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Shock-J reviewed on 19 Jul 2006
Anonymous reviewed on 01 May 2005
1. It uses way more CPU cycles than it should have to, causing my fan to come on full blast.
2. The drop shadow sometimes makes it very difficult to see details on the screen you're trying to measure. (You can work around this by moving the ruler and using the cursor, but still, the drop shadow needs to go.)
I've used Free ruler for a couple of years now, and I'm very grateful to the author, but I've just tried out a program called PixelStick that I'm finding more useful. It's not as intuitive as Free Ruler, but it's worth taking the time to learn it.
2. If you're using version 1.6, you shouldn't be seeing a drop shadow on the rulers at all.
3. PixelStick is neat.
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Orlandoech rated on 05 Jul 2011
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Bordsenius rated on 02 May 2011