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Pixus

Pixus is an AIR pixel ruler application, a handy tool for web and interface designers. Created by Jam Zhang

Free Open Source
Mac
Windows
Discontinued

Pixus is an AIR pixel ruler application, a handy tool for web and interface designers.

It has a lot of features:

1) Measure the screen objects in pixels using both mouse and keyboard control.

2) Preview your design with skins and presets.

3) Multi-screen support.

4) Auto update.

5) Quick Guides .

6) Toggle guide color by pressing Spacebar.

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Discontinued air-application measure measuring ruler web-design

Pixus was added by dangermo in Dec 2009 and the latest update was made in Sep 2015. The list of alternatives was updated Aug 2018. It's possible to update the information on Pixus or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

Pixus is discontinued

The program is no longer updated. Last version, 1.0 R78, released in August 2009, can be still downloaded from Google Code.

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Pixus Comments

Comment by newmania

about Pixus · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

The first ruler app I've used. It looks good and starts quickly. Very easy to learn.

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