How to Measure in Adobe Illustrator

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This tutorial will show you how to measure an object's size or space of an object to another in Adobe Illustrator.

Finding the Measure Tool

Sometimes, the measure tool is temporarily hiding under the eyedropper tool. If the eyedropper tool is showing on your menu bar, right-click it and select the measure tool, represented by a ruler on the drop-down menu.

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    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).
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    The outcomes are show at the Info box. You can measure your object size in every direction
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    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.
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