Beginners' Questions Text boxes with their own stroke and fill properties
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Beginners' Questions Text boxes with their own stroke and fill properties
Beginners' Questions Text boxes with their own stroke and fill properties
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Beginners' Questions Text boxes with their own stroke and fill properties
Hi all,
In most other structured drawing programs, a text box has its own stroke and fill properties that are separate from the text.
I'd like to create a resizeable frame with a border and background, then have text inside with margin settings that keep text spaced away from the frame. The text should reflow when the frame is resized. How do I do this in Inkscape?
Before I file an enhancement request, can someone confirm that this isn't currently possible in Inkscape?
There might be a couple ways to approach this.
I played around with clones to see if I can get something to work, I'm not thrilled with the results. Yet.
There is a new extension, if you are using v1.0: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes/1.0#Clone_Original
I haven't tested it to see how it might solve your need.
Can you point to some programs that currently support this, as examples?
Text->Flow into Frame...
Settable margins?
Why not?
How do I set it to have margins that keep the text away from the borders, like you have? I get text abutted right up against the box border:
Scale down the text-frame proportionally with ctrl and align centred.
I promise I'm not trying to being dense, but I'm new to Inkscape and I've spent 30 minutes struggling to figure out how to do this. And if I'm struggling, this will be harder for the non-technical writers on our team. Can you walk me through the steps please?
Absolutely. Here's how LibreOffice Draw handles it (OpenOffice Draw is similar):
Here's how Visio handles it:
Here's how Adobe Illustrator handles it:
MS PowerPoint and MS Word are similar to Visio, and I'm omitting their animations as they're fairly ubiquitous.
I think Inkscape can do this, with the new "Clone original" effect, but I haven't figured out how to make it work. The video is hard for me to understand the order of operations.
My goal would be to have the flowed text box be the basis for the size of a clone rectangle that has the border. Resize the flow-box and the border box adapts. (Typically, flowed text has no margin, and would need to be aligned with the clone rectangle/border.)
Sorry I'm being a bit dense, but I haven't spent a lot of time with the jam-packed new version.
Maybe this:
The extra rectangle can be hidden using the Objects panel.