I use Adobe Acrobat XI Pro on a Windows 7 Dell PC to create Commercial Landscape takeoff's from architectural drawings. After setting the appropriate scale under 'Change Scale Ratio' and then using the measurement tools to outline, color code, and label different areas, I right click the document and choose 'Export Measurement Markup to Excel...'. My problem is 80% of the time the measurements that end up listed in the exported Excel document are not consistent with measurements of the specific areas I've done my takeoff on. For instance, a planting bed area that I've outlined with the area tool which may be 457.53 square feet is listed in the export excel document as 2.3 square feet. I've tried checking and unchecking the 'Use Scale and Units from Document (when present)' option under the Preferences>Commenting menu, to no avail. Most of the time there is no embedded scale in the drawings we're working with. We've used various versions of Acrobat Pro for over 5 years performing hundreds of landscape takeoff's, trying to select and deselect just about every menu option under the 'Preferences' tab that has to do with measurement and commenting, but still have not found what causes this inconsistent exporting of measurement data across all versions. Our workaround is to just click on every little area we've measured out and manual transfer that to the spreadsheet.
Here is a dropbox to a PDF example and the exported excel csv file > Dropbox - Adobe Troubleshooting
