Adobe Acrobat allows to measure distances in a document, which is helpful and saves making test printouts when trying to get a certain layout right point-perfect.
Is there a free (as in beer) PDF viewer that allows the same? Or can a PDF viewer actually be relied on to reproduce distances closely enough on-screen, to the point where one could measure distances directly on the screen?
Best Answer
PDF-XChange Editor (previously PDF XChange Viewer) has a fairly comprehensive set of measurement tools that I find quite useful. It is, however, Windows-only, I think.
Here's a sample: