How.com.vn is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors. To create this article, volunteer authors worked to edit and improve it over time.
This article has been viewed 181,967 times.
Learn more...
This tutorial will show you how to measure an object's size or space of an object to another in Adobe Illustrator.
Steps
- Create or open an object you want to measure. Find the measure tool, it might be temporarily hiding under the eyedropper tool. If the eyedropper tool is showing, you can right click (CTRL + LMB) on the icon and select the measure tool (it will be represented with a ruler).
- First click is a start point and stop at the end point. The outcomes are show at the Info box. You can measure your object size in every directionAdvertisement
- To measure the space of two object, replete the second step. If you drag your mouse direction from left to right or bottom to top, you will get an outcome with positive number but if you do it in opposite way, you will get a negative number.
Expert Q&A
Video
Tips
About This Article
Is this article up to date?
⚠️ Disclaimer:
Content from Wiki How English language website. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike License; additional terms may apply.
Wiki How does not encourage the violation of any laws, and cannot be responsible for any violations of such laws, should you link to this domain, or use, reproduce, or republish the information contained herein.
- - A few of these subjects are frequently censored by educational, governmental, corporate, parental and other filtering schemes.
- - Some articles may contain names, images, artworks or descriptions of events that some cultures restrict access to
- - Please note: Wiki How does not give you opinion about the law, or advice about medical. If you need specific advice (for example, medical, legal, financial or risk management), please seek a professional who is licensed or knowledgeable in that area.
- - Readers should not judge the importance of topics based on their coverage on Wiki How, nor think a topic is important just because it is the subject of a Wiki article.