Scale and Measure?

Question

Good day to all ..im new here & a newbie with Ai

Been using EasySign for over 18years & planing of switching to Ai.

So ... my question is ... if I take a picture of something ,let's say ,a Shop Front !

I normally take a simple measurement of ...lets say,the width of the window.

Then I put the picture on the Easy SIGN software ...use a tool (transform-scale & measure)

Will place the mouse over the edge of the window & move to the other edge of the window.

Then enter the measurement I took of the width & Press Enter.....&the whole photo will enlarge to proportion.

Then I can measure every thing on the picture & will not be far off the actual measurements.

How can I do that in Adobe Illustrator?

Thanks in advance

Felix

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Monika Gause · Accepted Answer

You can't do that in Illustrator. Most of the time the storefront will be much larger than Illustrator's max document size.

And then you also don't have such a tool in Illustrator. There are CAD plugins that can add it.

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