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Rulers

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Rulers
Measure, align and inspect everything on your monitors! And more!

Normally: $22.00

ZOT Price: $11.00

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A great, Precision Screen Tool!

Rulers is an application that lets you measure, align and
inspect everything on your monitor(s). It’s available
for both Mac and Windows systems.

“Rulers” allows you to create rulers on the entire screen area like most common graphic editors allow on their
working areas only.

The guide lines enable you to measure and position
objects with precision. Rulers is incredibly useful in many
fields, such as computer graphics, desktop publishing and
web design.

Rulers can also be used to select a screen area and take
a screenshot that is automatically saved to your desktop or
copied to system clipboard.

Main features

  • Unlimited rulers creation
  • Auto measure
  • Multiple units of measurement support
  • Multi monitor support
  • Take a screenshot of selected area or whole
    screen
  • Magnifier
  • Color picker
  • Automatic internet update
  • New auto measure feature
  • Available for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows
  • Available in 10 languages (English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Japanese, Hungarian, Dutch, Russian, Czech)

    • What users say

    Computernaut on MacUpdate.com:

    This is the best screen ruler I’ve ever seen. Just like its product name, Rulers is free of any uncertainties as for what it can do, or can not do. No unnecessary bloat

    here.

    Compared to similar tools that I’ve tried, I find that Rulers is the only app worthy of being called a real pixel scalpel.

    Can’t say for how long I’ve been waiting for exactly this app, but it’s been long enough to say: Finally, you did it!

    bitnix on iusethis.com:

    I completely love this app.

    No matter how simple it may look, compared to the other competitors, this app finally makes me feel SURE, that the pixels I measure, actually ARE the pixels that I

    intended to measure, so to speak.

    Rulers manages to Keep It Simple™, and for that, I’d like to say thanks to the developers, omnidea. You rule! ;)

    WhiteDog on Versiontracker.com:

    Indeed, this is one of those “why didn’t they think of it sooner” kind of applications. Instead of moving an on-screen ruler to try to measure a space onscreen, you can

    pull out guides just as you do in a graphics or layout program, which makes alignment much easier.

    Mericoos on Versiontracker.com:

    Rulers does a great job of providing on-screen guides, allowing the insertion of horizontal, vertical and intersection rules. It also gives you Photoshop-style rulers at

    the top and side of your screen for positioning. A HUD provides mouse coordinates and a magnifying glass, with two minimal views and one that shows all of the data at

    once.

    This app provides screenshot capabilities and it also has an auto-measure tool. This is infinitely useful for quickly determining the pixel size of any on-screen area of

    which it can discern the edges. When Rulers is in the foreground, pressing Command-K will instantly show cross-hairs and a measurement for the area surrounding the mouse

    cursor.

    Rulers is pretty darn useful, especially for web designers, and it’s available for both Mac and Windows.

    Natuzzone on MacUpdate.com:

    I’ve recently discovered Rulers and I think it’s a great tool. It’s the easiest way to measure everything is on the screen and take screenshots.

    The interface is simple and cool. Rulers can be created and moved both thru drag and drop and shortcut (making adjustments more accurate).

    I’m using it on a dual monitor configuration, with different size monitors, and it works perfectly.

    MacUtilidades on Twitter

    Excelente app para quem está no mundo do design..

    Cullenw on Twitter

    Think I finally found that perfect Mac color picker app I have been looking for.

    dspook on iusethis.com:

    Me heart this app. Great for fine-tuning CSS layouts and such. Thanx Omnidea!

    System Requirements: Mac OSX 10.4 or later.

    Click to Developer’s Site for more info.
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    5 Responses to “Rulers”

    1. mistersquid Says:
      December 17th, 2009 at 9:28 am

      Rulers looks like a great MacZot deal. However there are some oddities with this software.

      The origin of the rulers is arbitrary, located at 21,43 on the primary monitor and elsewhere depending on how other monitors are arranged. The relative positions require recalculation for targeting positions on the screen rendering the numbers in the dynamic horizontal and vertical indicators in the rulers not-so-useful eye candy.

      Another issue I find is the odd decision to tie Auto Measure to a keyboard shortcut that must be invoked every time one wants to measure the dimensions between visual elements. This would make any developer creating a GUI go absolutely insane.

      There is another piece of software, Xscope that does not have the above-mentioned problems and has the obvious added feature of a customizable origin (rulers can move). This is a feature not a drawback, contrary to the opinions of others. Also, Rulers does not allow for keyboard customization, something Xscope does. At full price, Xscope is only $4.95 more than Rulers for a whole lot more software.

      Finally, Rulers weighs in at 15.8MB whereas Xscope is 3.9MB. The spare functionality and arbitrary keystroke conventions as well as the simplistic look of the UI (which is downright bizarre when you cycle from a the numeric to hybrid inspector using View > Toggle window mode ?E) tells me this is not-quite-Mac software.

      A great deal at $11. But if you’re a design professional, your money might be better spent on software that is more polished and feature complete.

    2. Outrider Says:
      December 17th, 2009 at 10:32 am

      Thanks for the comparative information. The MacZot window of opportunity isn’t open very long, so some times it’s hard to decide on anything more than price. Sounds like this one has some promise, but that some more comparative analysis could be in order as well. Software isn’t much of a bargain if it doesn’t suit your needs, even if it comes at a nice discount.

    3. Akim Says:
      December 17th, 2009 at 10:37 am

      I’ve tried both Rulers and xScope in the past.

      I found the first one much easier to use and effective to debug CSS layout. You don’t need to move origin as measurement is relative to nerest line intersection.

      I agree that at this price is a great deal.

    4. Eric Says:
      December 17th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

      “I found the first one much easier to use and effective to debug CSS layout.”

      Why would you use either to debug CSS layout? Firebug for Firefox is lightweight and free and much more versatile for measuring elements and changing them on the fly. If you still need a ruler get the web developer toolbar plugin. Also free.

    5. Zenzilla Says:
      December 17th, 2009 at 1:29 pm

      I tried the Rulers Demo:

      1 = An exception of class NilObjectException was not handled (I’ve never seen one before) = application must shut down

      2 = discovered that to bring down a 4th line to square in a view, the window to register/buy Rulers would pop up and prevent this action = what were you thinking!

      Conclusion = I will use Hazel to remove the application.