So this has been an issue that comes up periodically. Sometimes I just want to know the pixel measurement of something I see on the screen. Many times I just need the dimensions of an image I see on the web, so it’s easy enough to just view it in Firefox and look at the title bar. Easy squeezy.

Other times, though, it’s not an image. Maybe there’s a div in a web page, or I’m looking at something in a pdf or I want to check out the space between things or I want to see how things are lining up or whatever and I need to figure out exactly or approximately what the dimensions are. What’s a guy to do? The Iconfactory’s Xscope comes to the rescue.

This little bit of shareware will put rulers on your screen that you can move around and resize to figure out how big things are - if it’s on your screen Xscope can measure it. It has really nice and easy to use rulers and even lets you swivel the ruler so you can measure things that aren’t perfectly level. It does a lot of other stuff that, really, I don’t think I’d need. The screens feature which lets you see what smaller screen resolutions will see things as, or the Loupe which magnifies. Eh.. maybe. It also has Guides and Frames so you can get some more lines up on your screen. Again, not something I need.

I wish that the rulers were a standalone bit and the price was cheaper than the $16.95 - but at the end of the day, it’s not really that expensive and it’s a well made and good looking app. If you ever need to measure stuff on screen, Xscope’s worth a try - it has a 40 hour free trial period so you can see what you’re getting in to. That’s 40 hours of application run time not 40 hours since the first time you run it - if you go through that period you know you’re going to buy it. :)

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