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Don't know if it's already been given here but I found a trick to somehow make use of a measurement tool à la Photoshop.

Simply drag a line using Line tool set to First point and you get its length and angle in the Measurement palette. Then Apple-Z or Apple-K.

Hope this helps!

 Jean-Marie. Not XPress related, but I use your tip in Photoshop for a specific purpose. In PS, when you drag a line out like this using the Ruler tool, you can then go to Image>Rotate Canvas>Arbitrary and you will find that a value of rotation has already been inserted into the box. This is useful for when you need to straighten an image so that it's not skewed. You just drag the ruler tool along a straight edge of someting in the image keeping the same distance from the straight edge from beginning to end.