Working on the measurement markup

By Cynthia, 6 December, 2025

After you complete the measurement, you are able to do further operations on it, such as move, resize, flip, and even work on it the way you work on comments.

  1. Moving the measurement markup

    1) With the Hand command or the Select Annotation commandselected, click the measurement markup you want to move.

    2) Place the cursor over the object when the pointer changes into , hold and drag the mouse to move it to the intended place.

    3) (For distance measurement markups only) To move the label as well as the measurement result shown on the distance measurement markup: click on the text shown on the markup to activate the text cursor > drag the label directly to a desired position.

  2. Changing the length and orientation of the distance measurement markup

    1) With the Hand command or the Select Annotation commandselected, select the measurement markup. Move the cursor over one of the handles (the small circles or squares) at the endpoints of the markup, you will see the pointer change into . 

    2) Hold and drag the mouse to change the length and orientation of the distance measurement markup.

  3. Flipping the distance measurement markup and the result

    1) Select the Hand command or the Select Annotation command.

    2) Right-click the markup you draw > select Flip.

  4. Adding, editing, or deleting the measurement label

Measurement labels will be added and shown in the measurement markups as you specified in Measuring Preferences or as what you set while adding a measurement markup. If a measurement markup does not contain a label, you can easily add a label to it with Foxit PDF Editor. For existing labels, you can also edit or delete them. Steps are as follow:

  • Select the Hand command or the Select Annotation command.
  • To add a label to a measurement markup without label: right-click the measurement markup > select Add Label > input the label > click OK. 
  • To edit an existing label: right-click the measurement markup > select Edit Label > input the label as desired > click OK. 
  • To delete a label: right click the measurement markup > select Delete Label.
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