Have you ever needed to find out the dimensions of your media (pictures and videos)? Or if you are a developer, have ever felt the need to find the exact layout coordinates of some action your application will execute?
For these uses, and many others, PixelWindow comes as perfect tool.
The setup file to be downloaded is minuscule (~400 KB). Since the application is developed on Adobe Air, it is multiplatform i.e. it does not matter what operating system you are using.
Here’s how it works:
The program is merely one semitransparent blue rectangle. You can place it over your text/picture/video and then adjust the size by moving the scale markings; the dimensions of the box tell you the dimensions of area it covers. For instance, here is what I needed to do in order to find the dimensions of the text typed in the above screenshot:
And viola! I can obtain the dimensions of the text behind the blue window.
The transparency of the blue window can be easily by scrolling the mouse wheel forwards or backwards. If you need precision while moving the sliders, you can use your keyboards to adjust each side pixel by pixel.
PixelWindow is a powerful, yet tiny application which serves multiple purposes. You can learn more about it and download it here.
