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                           The Measuring toolbar contains tools you can
use to measure distances and areas of objects in PDF documents.
The measuring tools are especially useful when you need to know
the distances or areas associated with objects in a form or computer-aided
design (CAD) drawing, or when you want to measure certain areas
of a document before sending it to a professional printer. The measuring tools
are available to Reader users only if the PDF creator enables measuring functionality.</p>

                        <p>When
you use a measuring tool, the tool dialog box displays the measurements of
the line segments you draw.</p>

                        <div class="fignone"><img alt="" id="wa14" src="images/wa14.png" /><div xmlns:adobe="http://www.adobe.com/saxon" class="figdesc">Measuring tools</div><br xmlns:adobe="http://www.adobe.com/saxon" />
                           
                           
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                                 <dt class="dlterm">A.</dt>

                                 <dd>Measuring toolbar</dd>

                              
                              
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being measured</dd>

                              
                              
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<ol><li><span>Choose Tools &gt; Measuring, and select a measuring
tool. Or, right-click/Control-click the toolbar area, and then choose
Measuring.</span></li>
<li><span>To measure areas of your PDF document, do any of the
following:</span><ul><li>
                                 <p>Select the Distance tool&#160;<img src="images/A_DistanceTool_Lg_N.png" /> to
measure the distance between two points. Click the first point,
move the pointer to the second point, and then click again. The
measurements appear in the tool dialog box.&#160;</p>

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                                 <p>Select the Perimeter tool&#160;<img src="images/A_CompDistance_Sm_N.png" /> to
measure a set of distances between multiple points. Click each point
you want to measure. Then, double-click the last point, or hold
the pointer over the last point and click.&#160;</p>

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                                 <p>Select the Area tool&#160;<img src="images/A_AreaTool_Sm_N.png" /> to
measure the area within the line segments that you draw. Click each
point you want to measure. After you have clicked at least two points,
click the first point to complete the area measurement.&#160;</p>

                                 <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>You
can also finish a measurement by right-clicking/Control-clicking
and choosing Complete Measurement from the context menu.</div>

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<li><span>While measuring objects, do any of the following:</span><ul><li>
                                 <p>To change the scaling ratio (such as 3:2)
on the drawing areas, specify the appropriate numbers in the tool
dialog box. If desired, change the unit of measurement next to this
ratio.</p>

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                                 <p>Select Measurement Markup in the tool dialog box
if you want the lines you draw to appear as a comment. You can then
use the Hand tool to double-click the comment and view the measurement
for the line segments that you draw. Unless Annotate is selected,
the object you draw will disappear when you measure another object
or select another tool.</p>

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