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USING ACROBAT 9 PRO
Workspace
Show or hide guides
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Choose View > Guides.
Move or delete ruler guides
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Click the guide to select it, and then drag it to a new location, or press Delete. To delete all guides, right-click in the
ruler area and choose Clear All Guides or Clear Guides On Page.
Change guide colors
In the Preferences dialog box under Categories, select Units & Guides.
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Click the Guide Color square and choose a new color from the Color pop-up menu.
Measure the height, width, or area of objects
Use the measuring tools to measure distances and areas of objects in PDF documents. The measuring tools are useful
for showing the distances and areas associated with objects in a form or computer-aided design (CAD) drawing. You
can also use these tools 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.
When you use a measuring tool, the Measurement Info panel shows information about the measurement, such as
current measurement, delta values, and scale ratio.
Measuring tools
A. Measuring toolbar B. Object being measured C. Measurement Info panel
Choose Tools > Analysis > Measuring Tool.
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To measure areas of your PDF document, select any of the following measurement types:
• Select the Distance tool
the second point, and click again.
• Select the Perimeter tool
measure. Then, double-click the last point.
• Select the Area tool
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.
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While measuring objects, do any of the following:
• To snap the measurement to the end of a line, select Snap To Paths
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to measure the distance between two points. Click the first point, move the pointer to
to measure a set of distances between multiple points. Click each point you want to
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