Screen Ruler Changelog

What's new in Screen Ruler 0.10.0

Oct 9, 2022
  • New: Fine-grained calibration to display scaling using four scaling modes.
  • New: Monitor DPI awareness & automatic scaling.
  • New: Configuration of keyboard shortcuts.
  • New: Turkish translation.
  • Fixed: Placement of marker labels in flipped orientation.
  • Fixed: Intersecting mouse & offset labels.
  • Fixed: Various UI and usability issues & causes for app crashes
  • Updated: Spanish translation

New in Screen Ruler 0.9.1 (Oct 29, 2021)

  • Fixed: Misplaced markers on flipped ruler
  • Fixed: Crashing marker list window when no markers are set

New in Screen Ruler 0.9.0 (Aug 5, 2021)

  • New: Horizontal and vertical flipping of ruler scale
  • New: Optionally show hypotenuse ("H") and angles in 2D ruler mode
  • New: Command-line arguments to set startup location or measure opened window
  • New: Add shortcut ("X") to set marker at cursor position
  • New: Allow changing of units in marker list
  • New: Setting to snap ruler scale to screen edges
  • Updated: Chinese translation

New in Screen Ruler 0.8.1 (Apr 1, 2021)

  • New: Slovak translation
  • New: Increase precision of screen DPI setting
  • New: Keyboard shortcuts for toggling theme and setting opacity
  • Fixed: Position of marker labels on ruler

New in Screen Ruler 0.7.0 (Aug 31, 2020)

  • New: Added window for listing & managing custom markers
  • New: Option to hide ruler scale
  • New: Let ruler automatically follow mouse pointer
  • New: Italian translation
  • New/ Changed: Minor changes in options & settings (opacity, markers, step size)

New in Screen Ruler 0.6.0 (Apr 26, 2020)

  • New:: Two-dimensional mode: measure the width and height simultaneously
  • New:: Toggle ruler mode using 'Space'
  • New:: Slim ruler scale
  • New: Ruler icon in notification area instead of task bar
  • New:: Improved dialog for setting ruler size
  • New: Chinese translation

New in Screen Ruler 0.5.0 (Feb 23, 2020)

  • New: Marker for Golden Ratio
  • New: Symbols for marker lines (optional)
  • New: Spanish translation
  • Changed: Added window for easy ruler calibration

New in Screen Ruler 0.4.0 (Jan 7, 2020)

  • New: Configure marker thickness.
  • New: Configure size of resize/ move steps.
  • New: Minor: Tool tip and copy shortcut

New in Screen Ruler 0.3 (Jul 14, 2019)

  • New: Select a window from screen to measure it automatically.
  • New: Measuring unit: percentage of screen width/ height.
  • New: Fast resizing with mouse wheel.
  • Changed: Switched shortcuts for resizing and moving (!).
  • Fixed: Unclear menu label.

New in Screen Ruler 0.2 (Oct 10, 2018)

  • New:
  • Measure in different units (cm, pt, in).
  • Dark ruler theme.
  • Custom coloring of the ruler.
  • Easily resize the ruler with the mouse wheel.
  • Add unlimited number of custom markers and delete them one by one.
  • Changed:
  • App set to be DPI aware for more accurate measuring.
  • (Used DPI value adjustable in the settings.)

New in Screen Ruler 0.1.2 (Apr 22, 2018)

  • New: Saves the last ruler state for next startup.
  • Fixed: Resizing with keyboard in vertical mode.

New in Screen Ruler 0.1.1 (Mar 20, 2018)

  • Fixed bug: If the screen coordinates of the application are negative (e.g. usage with two connected displays), the ruler jumps back to x = 0 when switching between horizontal and vertical.