Freebie screen ruler that works with FM (on Windows)

[Guest]

http://www.fabsoft.com/products/ruler/ruler.html

I just came across a freebie screen ruler that seems to work perfectly with FM (including XP; don't know about Vista). Lots of customization capability (ruler height/width, scale, fonts, colors, units, vertical/horizontal display, multiple instances, "marks")

In order to display pica units, change the custom unit settings to:

Unit Size = 16
Ticks per Unit = 2
Display unit value every = 2

Doesn't seem to have any nagware or spyware, but please do your own due diligence about virus checks etc. before downloading.

[Mike Wickham]

Your link doesn't work and there is no sign of the ruler utility there.

Mike

[Guest]

Thanks, Mike. You're right. I googled for the app name which is "cruler2.exe" another link and many, many links came up on shareware sites -- none that I particularly would want to download from -- ah, but here's a link to the FTP that does work (at least as of right now):

ftp://downloads.fabsoft.com/downloads/cruler2.exe

[Guest]

The BitsduJour website http://www.bitsdujour.com has a half-price offer (just for today, Feb 2/09) on "Screen Calipers" by Iconico (parent of BitsduJour) http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/screen-calipers/

Not sure if the offer might only be for Windows, although one of the screenshots shows an Apple logo.

I haven't tried this app, but it does look very interesting.

[FieryPantone]

fwiw, I've been happy with http://www.spadixbd.com/freetools