Screen ruler you can rotate to any angle?

[za kAT]

Screen ruler you can rotate to any angle.

Anyone know of a freeware?

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[wasbit]

"za kAT" <za...@super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote in message news:ic41in$ofq$1...@news.eternal-september.org...

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> Screen ruler you can rotate to any angle.
>
> Anyone know of a freeware?
>

Not exactly what you are looking for but it may suffice.

MB-Ruler - http://www.markus-bader.de/MB-Ruler/index.htm

Regards
wasbit

[za kAT]

Thanks, I found this. Portable, and brilliantly simple.

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/

SmallMeasure v1.0

http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/SmallMeasure/SmallMeasure.exe

[Bear Bottoms]

za kAT <za...@super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote in news:ic41in$ofq$1
@news.eternal-september.org:

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> Screen ruler you can rotate to any angle.
>
> Anyone know of a freeware?
>

http://www.charten.com/Products/BitRule.htm

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[za kAT]

On 19 Nov 2010 00:26:23 GMT, Bear Bottoms wrote:

> za kAT <za...@super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote in news:ic41in$ofq$1
> @news.eternal-september.org:
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>>
>> Screen ruler you can rotate to any angle.
>>
>> Anyone know of a freeware?
>>
>
> http://www.charten.com/Products/BitRule.htm

Doesn't work for me. The magnifier is out of sync with the mouse. Doesn't
seem to want to work across windows.

Shame because the magnifier might be useful, but SmallMeasure is piss
simple, and good enough for the job I was doing.

[Klaatu]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:16:19 GMT, za kAT posted to alt.comp.freeware:

> Screen ruler you can rotate to any angle.
>
> Anyone know of a freeware?

I'm not in a position to look it up right now, but do a search for a
freeware program called Golden Section. Hopefully it'll meet your needs.

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[za kAT]

On 22 Nov 2010 16:52:47 GMT, Klaatu wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:16:19 GMT, za kAT posted to alt.comp.freeware:
>
>> Screen ruler you can rotate to any angle.
>>
>> Anyone know of a freeware?
>
> I'm not in a position to look it up right now, but do a search for a
> freeware program called Golden Section. Hopefully it'll meet your needs.

I think you mean Golden Ratio.

Except it now appears to be payware. I could have sworn it was freeware at
one time?

http://www.markuswelz.de/software2/index.html

[Martin Clark]

za kAT <za...@super-secret-IPaddress.invalid> wrote in

news:ice8rn$k84$1...@news.eternal-september.org:

> On 22 Nov 2010 16:52:47 GMT, Klaatu wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 20:16:19 GMT, za kAT posted to alt.comp.freeware:
>>
>>> Screen ruler you can rotate to any angle.
>>>
>>> Anyone know of a freeware?
>>
>> I'm not in a position to look it up right now, but do a search for a
>> freeware program called Golden Section. Hopefully it'll meet your
>> needs.

Probably thinking of Atrise Golden Section - also payware. Places a
translucent overlay of golden ratio (irrational mathematical constant,
approximately 1.6180339887). Sort of gizmo used by Leonardo, Corbusier
etc.

> I think you mean Golden Ratio.
>
> Except it now appears to be payware. I could have sworn it was
> freeware at one time?
>
> http://www.markuswelz.de/software2/index.html

I thought so too - no sign of it. Google gets it mostly in the context of
Angelina Jolie. Why are we not surprised...

Probably not what the OP was looking for ...
For images, my solution for a ruler not vertical/horizontal: paste the
image or screen capture as a raster image into a decent CAD program,
measure at least one known dimension, then you have a ratio for any other
dimension, using "dist" command or similar. will only work if the line is
perspective-free of course. Not much use if the ruler is for screen
geometry, eg pixels.