Measuring tool question

Hello,
A lawyer at my firm inquired about how to measure something in a document and I found the measuring tool. I just wanted to confirm a couple things with it.
1) Scale ratio. If I set it to 1mm = 1mm, that measurement I create is going to be the true measurement of the space from point a to point b?
2) Is the measurement created the actual size of the measurement in relation to its printed size? I'm assuming yes, but I've been asked to confirm this just for a sanity check as the consequences for an inaccurate measurement are fairly significant for us.
Thank you for any insight you can provide. Regards,

Thanks for the reply. I didn't see an option in Acrobat to change the printing scale without actually being in the print menu, so I don't think the measuring tool is looking at the size relative to anything, and is just basing it on the actual dimensions of the document in its properties. I was just hoping someone could confirm that.

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Hello to all my name is Ron. Can someone tell me If the measuring tool in Illustrator can be set at a particular length? In other words, Can I set the measuring tool to, let say, 3.5" with out It retracting, and move It around the document. I believe that I saw someone do this using an older version of Illustrator a few years back, but I could never figure out how do It. Thanks for any help. The version I have access to is prehistoric, It's Illustrator 10.
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Can I set the measuring tool...and move It around the document.
Don't waste time trying to get any practical use out of Illustrator's pathetic measure tool. (Fercryin'outloud, if any tool should provide proper and reliable snap-to feedback a measureing tool should!)
Use the Line Tool instead.
To create a fixed-length "ruler" Get the Line Tool, click (don't drag), set the desired length and direction, and click Okay.
To use a "line" (a single-segment path) or any straight segment of a path as an adjustable measuring tool:
1. Turn on SmartGuides (necessary in Illustrator whenever you need reliable snaps)
2. Get (and keep) the under-informative Info Palette in front of you.
3. Get (and keep) the redundant, should-be-unnecessary Document Info Palette in front of you. Everytime you start the stupid program, tediously reset this palette to Objects and Selection Only. Set that way, it displays the length of the selected path.
4. Remember that any time a selection is active, you can doubleClick either the white pointer (for anchorPoints) or the black pointer (for objects) to invoke the Move dialog, to specify a movement in terms of distance and direction.
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If you have a fixed measure of a particular direction that you need to repeatedly apply. DoubleClick the Line Tool to specify a single-segment path of desired length and direction. Use the path as a moveable "measuring stick". Just be sure to remember to always select the whole thing before moving it around by one of its ends (as you would do so as to snap the end to an existing coordinate). You have to always be mindful to consciously work around Illustrator's stupid insistence upon its hideous dual selection tools.
Disregard the crap you often hear bantered about regarding how any self-respecting self-proclaimed "Illustrator expert" never uses the black pointer and always leaves Bouding box display off. ShiftDragging one of the two bounding box corners at the endpoints of a single-segment path is one of the few ways to maintain the angle of a segment while dragging its endpoint to snap to another path, guide, or other snapable coordinate. Granted, Illustrator should provide the means by which to constrain the drag of that endpoint to the segment's existing angle without resorting to a bounding box, but in Illustrator, everything is a workaround.
When you need to set a length of a diagonal straight segment of an existing path, realize that you can drag the anchorPoint that you want to exend or shorten to a specific distance/angle and snap it right on top of the anchorPoint at the other end of the segment. Then doubleClick the whitePointer, and enter the desired length/angle into the Move dialog.
Remember that you can convert paths to pathGuides, and that pathGuides including their anchorPoints are snapable. You can then lock/unlock Guides and still snap to their anchorPoints. So, for example, if you need to snap to distance increments along diagonal construction axes, you can draw a straight path with anchorPoints distributed uniformly and convert that to a snap-to pathGuide. (Try to ignore the fact that better programs with SmartGuides-like features provide settings for incremental snaps along the pre-defined constraint angles, so such tedous setup is not necessary.)
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Where can I find information about using the measurement tool and log?

Am try to use the measurement tool to measure perspective plain; any ideas?

No one can remotely have "any ideas" to help you when you don't even mention what your problem is nor what your system and workflow are like.
Of course, when you post here,one assumes you have done your due diligence, read the documentation, the user guide, the Help files in the Photoshop Help menu, as well as done Google and forum searches, etc, and we would expect some sensible, detailed information from you.
Teaching someone Photoshop from scratch, step by step, exceeds the scope of this forum—or any other forum.
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Note that this is boilerplate text.
If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand,
such as your platform (Mac or Win),
exact versions of your OS, of Photoshop (not just "CS6", but something like CS6v.13.0.6) and of Bridge,
your settings in Photoshop > Preference > Performance
the type of file you were working on,
machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
what troubleshooting steps you have taken so far,
what error message(s) you receive,
if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them,
if you're having printing issues, indicate the exact make and model of your printer, paper size, image dimensions in pixels (so many pixels wide by so many pixels high). if going through a RIP, specify that too.
A screen shot of your settings or of the image could be very helpful too,
etc.,
someone may be able to help you (not necessarily this poster, who is not a Windows user).
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
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I've measured and area using the measurement tool on one pdf drawing and now want to copy and paste it in to another pdf drawing and rotate it in to position. Is this possible?

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Right clicked the page when the measuring tool was selected and chose 'change scale ratio'. However, I would have never thought that it was a ratio issue...
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