Measurement tool text only showing as comment

[Kevin29955903onit]

I had used acrobat before and did not have this kind of trouble with adding measurement dimensions to a file to refer to later.

When I have corrected the documents scale and precision, I was able to use the measuring tool similar to a CAD program,

however, now it appears the only options are to have it embed as markup comments or not at all.

Is there not a way to have the text shown at all times for the dimension drawn after completing the tool?  (as it appears WHILE you are drawing the measurement...)

Has this moved elsewhere in the app/preference? 

Having it as a comment may work for online/looking at a screen, but after printing it doesn't help anyone.   It just shows as lines and arrows....

I never had to manually place text for the measurement as a seperate text box/object that I can recall.

Just wanting to make sure I'm not going crazy...;)

[Kevin29955903onit]

version 2024.002.20895 btw...

[S. S]

Hi @Kevin29955903onit,

Hope you are doing well. Sorry for the trouble.

First, we recommend updating your application to the latest version (2024.003.20054).

Once done, you might want to check two locations in the preferences:

1. Preferences-> Measuring (2D)-> enable the checkboxes "Use scale and units from the document" and "Use Orthographic Lines;

2. Once done, Enable the "Enable Measurement markup" checkbox and change the selection below as per your preference. 

[Screenshot added for reference]

Once these are done, head to Preferences-> Units & Guides-> Enable the "Show rulers when opening documents" checkbox. 

More info can be found here: Grids, guides, and measurements in PDFs, Adobe Acrobat

Hope this helps.

-Souvik

[Kevin29955903onit · Accepted solution]

Actually found the property I was missing.. it was a checkbox in the individual measurement properties "Show Text In Line" somehow had been saved as default with the checkbox turned off.

Thanks for the help anyway, sorry for the late reply..

[S. S]

Thanks @Kevin29955903onit for sharing the response.

Marking this as correct for future users to use as reference.

-Souvik