How often have you scrolled an XPress page just to get the fixed vertical or horizontal rulers in the right place to perform a critical alignment? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could tear off those rulers, assign them their own measurement system and move them anywhere on the page?
The BeyondMeasure XTension provides resizeable freely Floating Rulers that can optionally auto-snap to selected elements of a page. Floating Rulers can have their own measurement units or use those of the current document. Additionally, users can create/delete guidelines from the rulers with three decimal precision. The Floating Rulers can be assigned their own color, and can be configured to always use the document origin for their x and y reference point or begin at zero wherever they are on the page. You can even set the rulers to auto-snap to the right and bottom of objects as well as XPress’ traditional left and top – the tick marks even adjust for either preference. The Floating Rulers can be moved independently of each other, or in unison by holding the Shift key while clicking and dragging either ruler.
BeyondMeasure also provides the Measure Tool and Instant Dimensions. The Measure Tool finds the distance and angle between any two points. Using the new Measure Tool in the XPress Tool palette, select the first endpoint of the desired measurement. Click and drag the crosshairs to the second point. The display will indicate the horizontal width and vertical height, total distance and the angle between the two endpoints.
Instant Dimensions displays the x and y coordinates, and height and width of the current box, right at the cursor. This occurs when you are creating or resizing a text or picture box, or when you are moving the box. You can edit the font and size in which the dimensions are displayed on screen. Instant Dimensions and the Measure Tool can also be activated via command keys.
