Enable Measuring Tool

I'm attempting to enable the measuring tool (Adobe Acrobat X) in a PDF copy of an AutoCAD drawing.
I tried Save as--Reader Extended PDF, but the only option is "Enable Forms Fill-in & Save in Adobe Reader". Is there an add-on, or an extension for measuring i need to install in order to enable it?

Hi br0wners,
As Bernd said, you'll need to upgrade to Acrobat X Pro. If you do so, you'll have the ability to Save As > Reader Extended PDF > Enable Commenting and Measuring.
This feature is not available in Acrobat X Standard.
-David

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I created a Geo-spatial PDF using ESRI's ArcGIS. I opened the PDF in Adobe Acrobat Pro X and made some minor cosmetic changes. In Acrobat Pro X I was able to use all the geospatial tools including the measuring tool. I saved the changes to the PDF.
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Yes, you need to save the PDF as Reader Extended PDF in Acrobat X. This can be done from File>Save As>Reader Extended PDF>Enable Commenting and Measuring. This file will give the Measuring Tool option in Adobe Reader X.

Can't open PDF enabled for Measuring Tool

Help please!! I need the measuring tool via Reader X. So per this forum, I had the creator of the PDF do the following in Acrobat...
File>Save As>Reader Extended PDF>Enable Commenting and Measuring
Then I tried opening the PDF, but I get this error...
Adobe Reader could not open "XXXXXX.pdf" because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).
The file IS a .pdf file type and I am accessing it via a shared drive (not email) and I don't know how you'd tell whether it was damaged. Do I need to change some other setting on Reader X? Is there a technical solution that is not obvious? Or do I need to go back to the drawing board and work with the creator?!
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Hi SGckc,
This document is almost certainly a dynamic XFA form. Unfortunately, our mobile Reader does not support displaying or filling such forms. The application that produces this form embeds this message into the document so that non-supportive viewers (like ours) will display this "error" page when the document opens. I do realize that this is confusing and I would like to add some additional detection to our Reader for this case. However, we've avoided doing this for fear of confusing users even further. Your feedback helps though. Hopefully we'll find a way to detect this case and present a better message to the user like: This form is not supported by the mobile version of the Adobe Reader. Please open and fill it on the non-mobile version of the Adobe Reader for Windows, Linux or Mac OSX.
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Pat

I have Adobe Acrobat Pro XI and cannot enable the measuring tool. Any advice?

I have tried to add to the tool set, but I am not allowed to select the Measuring Tool and move to it the tool set.
Any help is appreciated.

The Measuring Tool is not showing in the tools panel either.
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How to have measurement tools in a 3D pdf in acrobat reader ?

hello,
I have the trial version of acrobat 9 pro extended
I work with 3D content in pdf file
I try to use measurement tool in adobe reader 9 but is not activated.
When I create my pdf 3D file in acrobat 9 pro extanded, I have the measurement tool but not with adobe reader with the same pdf file
I find nothing in help file
could you help me ?
regards

You can extend some of the PDF capabilites, such as 3D Measurement and Commenting, by using one of the following methods:
With the PDF open, go to Comments > Enable for Commenting and Analysis in Adobe Reader...
-or-
With the PDF open, go to Advanced > Extend Features in Adobe Reader...
Either one of these will make the PDF behave the way you want it to. I'm not sure exactly what the differences are, but my impression is that the latter gives the Reader user a few more priveleges. I could be wring. This can probably be clarified by the Help system.

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Hei,
I need the measuring tool bar to be displayed in my Reader. For that, I think the Usage Rights to be Enabled when creating the PDF in Acrobat 8.0.
I just wanted to do it programmatically. I found using Live Cycle Reader Extension is a solution for that.
Is there anyother way to enable usage rights directly using Acrobat API?
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What about just simply having the measurement and section toolbar appear? I've been capturing files using the "print screen" method and not been able to produce a PDF that will display the measurement and section tool in the reader. Can anyone tell me how to do it?
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I have been searching this topic and I can't find anything conclusive on this situation. I have Adobe Reader XI version 11.0.10. I would like to take measurements of parts on a 3D PDF. These folks are outsourcing work to us to build and I can't get measurements that I need from the notations they have made. I know the measure tool will solve my issues, I have seen it in use, but I don't have access. I have the following tools available above my 3D image:
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What do you mean you are "using Adobe Reader'? Inside of a browser? Inside of your application? Stand-alone?
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yes i just found it. I had to get rid of the common tools box and go to view then tool sets. Thanks for the response.

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