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Printable ruler
A ruler that prints at the size it says, and a screen scale worked out from a bank card.
It runs entirely in this browser tab: nothing you type is uploaded, and nothing here counts down, rings or records.
Settings
- How long
- The room the meeting is booked for, which the agenda is checked against A number from 50 to 300.
- Marks
- All four are in ordinary use; a tool that read one of them would refuse three quarters of the templates people already have. Choices: {amount} mm, Millimetres and inches, {amount} in.
- Card width in pixels
- Hold a bank card against the screen and measure it in pixels. That is the only size this page can know.
- Card held
- 85.60 mm across, 53.98 upright. A reader who measures the short side and is told the long one has a ruler a third too small. Choices: The long way, 85.60 mm, The short way, 53.98 mm.
- Draw a check bar
- A hundred millimetres to hold a ruler against, which is the only way to find out whether the printer scaled the page.
How to use it
- Paste your text into the box above, or open a file.
- Adjust the settings beside it until the result is what you wanted.
- Copy the result, or save it as a file. The result updates as you type.
Questions
- Why is there no click counter or reaction timer?
- Because both are a button and a clock, and this page is a function from one text to one result. A reaction timer that measured a browser's own scheduling delay would be reporting the wrong number confidently, which is worse than not shipping it. All eight of the group's device tools are named on the hub instead.
- Does the break schedule remind me?
- No. There is no clock, no notification and no code here that could make one. What it does is write the day out in advance — work, breaks and lunch in the middle of whatever day you gave — so you can print it or put it in a calendar that does ring.
- Will the printed ruler be the right size?
- It will if your printer does not scale the page, which is what the hundred-millimetre check bar is for: hold a ruler against it. The drawing is an SVG whose width is stated in millimetres, so the size is in the file rather than in the viewer.
- Does the decision matrix tell me what to choose?
- No, and it says so on every result. It multiplies your scores by your weights, which makes your own judgement visible; a matrix that came out the way you hoped is a matrix you weighted. What it adds is how close the top two were.
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