Measurement tools pdf

To measure an area in the document, select the Area Tool. Click the first point, then the second and following points until you mark the entire area you want to measure.

The Object Inspector panel displays coordinates, the distance of the latest fragment and the angle of the current fragment. To end the area, right-click or double-click. The remaining fragment will be built automatically from the current point to the beginning point. The area of the specified polygon is calculated automatically based on the current scale see below.

To select the area measurement drawing, switch to the Hand Tool mode and click the area. In the Object Inspector window you will see properties of the selected object. Double-click the area measurement drawing in the document to display the balloon tooltip with text comments and all the replies. To set the scale ratio, select any of measurement tools. The settings of the tool will be displayed in the Object Inspector. The Scale Ratio parameter allows you to set relation between lengths in the document and the real ones.

For example, if the blueprint says the scale is , this means each one millimeter in the document corresponds to ten real millimeters. Here, we measure the same length on the drawing, but set different scale ratios. Hence, the resulting distance displays different values. Measurement Tools Measurement tools allow you to measure distances, perimeters and areas in the PDF document.

Clicking on the down arrow of the toolbar button allows you to select a measurement tool: Using distance measurement tool Click and hold the left mouse button to start drawing the Distance measurement tool. Double-click the line to display the balloon tooltip with the text comment: Using perimeter measurement tool The Perimeter Tool allows you measuring cumulative length of several straight fragments.

Horizontal and vertical rulers let you check the size of objects in your document. You can also create guides in your document, which are especially useful for lining up objects, such as form fields. You can change the unit of measurement and color used in the ruler. Drag down from the horizontal ruler to create a horizontal guide, or drag right from the vertical ruler to create a vertical guide.

Double-click a location on the horizontal ruler to create a vertical guide, or double-click a location on the vertical ruler to create a horizontal guide. Use the measuring tools to measure distances and areas of objects in PDF documents. The measuring tools are useful for showing the distances and areas associated with objects in a form or computer-aided design CAD drawing. You can also use these tools to measure certain areas of a document before sending it to a professional printer.

The measuring tools are available to Acrobat Reader users only if the PDF creator enables measuring functionality. When you use a measuring tool, the Measurement Info panel shows information about the measurement, such as current measurement, delta values, and scale ratio.

Acrobat inserts comments with the values calculated for distance, perimeter, or area. Measuring toolbar B. Object being measured C. Measurement Info panel. Select the Distance tool to measure the distance between two points.

Click the first point, move the pointer to the second point, and click again. Select the Perimeter tool to measure a set of distances between multiple points. Click each point you want to measure.

Then, double-click the last point. Select the Area tool to measure the area within the line segments that you draw. After you have clicked at least two points, click the first point to complete the area measurement.

To snap the measurement to the end of a line, select Snap To Paths. To snap the measurement to the endpoint of a line, select Snap To Endpoints. To snap the measurement to the midpoint of a line, select Snap To Midpoints. To snap the measurement to the intersection of multiple lines, select Snap To Intersections.

To discontinue a measurement, right-click and choose Cancel Measurement. To delete a measurement markup, click it with the Measurement Tool and press the Delete key. To set measuring tool options, select the tool, then right-click anywhere in the PDF to view the options.

Change Scale Ratio. Change Markup Label. When enabled, the measurement lines you draw are added to the PDF. When disabled, the measurement lines disappear when you measure another object or select another tool.

Show or hide vertical and horizontal rulers on the page. Export Measurement Markup To Excel. Change the 2D Measuring preferences to determine how 2D data is measured. When enabled, measurements based on the units generated from the original document, if present, are used.

Deselect this option to specify the units of measurements manually. Use Orthographic Lines. Measuring Line Color. Enable Measurement Markup. You can use the default measurement labels or specify your own label.

When deselected, each time you draw a distance measurement, you move the mouse to determine the leader length. Default Line Start. Default Line End. Caption Style Distance Tool only.

Default Leader Length Distance Tool only. Specify snap behavior. Sensitivity indicates how close the pointer must be to the item being snapped to. Snap Hint Color specifies the color of the snap line that appears when you hold the pointer over the object.

The Cursor Coordinates show the coordinate position of the pointer within the document pane. The position numbering begins in the upper-left corner of the document.