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Erik Richard Sørensen <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:12:09 +0200
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You are absolutely right here Brian! - That's exactly my clue.:-) - The 
'bad' thing about FreeRuler is that it hasn't any percentujal 
enlargement / zooming so it would fit into zoomed pages, - but I do like 
it despite this missing.

Cheers, Erik Richard

Brian Ferguson wrote:
> The Owner's point here is that our friend Free Ruler can be moved around
> the page. Quite different from having fixed rulers, top and side.
> 
> Clever little Nisus Man!! 
> 
> Erik Richard Sørensen wrote:
> quote
>> The owner was a bit frustrated at first, because he couldn't really
>> see what he should use the little Nisus man's friend for. Oh dear! you
>> are so stupid, the little Nisus man said, - why don't you just move my
>> friend Free Ruler around to the buttom stroke of the underline
>> characters and then look at the measurements to see how much is left
>> down to the buttom margen? - ...Well, the owner said, - can I be
>> certain that these measurings are correctly? - Indeed you can, said
>> the little Nisus man. You know what - My friend Free Ruler is so smart
>> that he can make himself align to the size and percentual setup of
>> even a big, big monitor - or a small one, if you could use that.
>>
>> So you see, my friend Free Ruler is dynamic, the little Nisus man
>> said. - And as long as you have set me to fit 100% - not 125% or any
>> other zooming factor. And if you didn't know, I'm also dynamic on a
>> monitor, so the larger monitor, the larger page you will get, and my
>> friend Free Ruler also grows with me, so we grow together.
> end quote

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