Ruler in Photoshop Elements 10

I have been using Photoshop CS for some years, but now my newly updated Mac software (Lion) says it can't read it any more because CS is powerPC based which Lion does not support.
I looked at Elements 9 a while ago but it doesn't have a ruler, I need a ruler for the designing and drawing that I have to do.
Does Elements 10 have a ruler? Is it any good for drawing?
In hope.

You could try using the circle tool as follows for angular lines:
- on a separate layer, create a line (LINE-A) near a ruler, making it the length of the line you want to create at an angle.
- move LINE-A so one end touches the screen where you want the angular line to appear.
- select the ellipse tool then set the ellipse check box to "Circle (draw diameter or radius)", and check the box "From Center"
- click on the end of LINE-A, and hold down the mouse button. Adobe Elements will start to draw a circle.
- move the mouse pointer until the circumference of the circle touches the other end of LINE-A.
You can now draw a radius line from the .center of the circle to any point on the circle. Any line drawn should be the same length as LINE-A (you may have to juggle layers to correlate points).
Conversely, on a separate layer, you can use the circle tool to draw a circle with the radius being the line you want to measure, then move that circle to a ruler (either horizontal or vertical) and measure the radius of the circle there. That is your line length.
Bruce

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6. Second Measurement Input. PLEASE NOTE 100 Pixels Input!
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8. All Input Data correct and ready to Crop to preset Width/Height/Dpi restrictions.
9. OH DEAR IT DOESN'T WORK! Again it fails to give me a simple 500x100 pixel at 96dpi Crop Box!
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Testing. Photoshop Elements 8/Premiere Elements 8.
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(c) size of slideshow
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Thanks MichelBParis
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You are right.
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