Hi everyone,

I need to do a chartflow/diagram with Inkscape and would like all my text boxes to have their text centered (horizontally and vertically) and resize automatically when the text change, get bigger, etc. Is that possible ? I have used others applications that can do that but is it possible to do better than Flow into Frame with Inkscape ?

Thanks for your time.

I believe it´s the same question asked here: https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/how-to-dynamically-kern-text-to-fit-a-box/

Thanks Polygon for your answer. I don't think this is what I am looking for.

The text has a particular font and size and I would like the box to fit perfectly the text (its size). Horizontally and vertically and always centered. I write more text the box grows, I write less, the box shrinks, with still the text centered on it. Not more complicated.

Thanks for your time.

Instead of [Text > Flow into Frame], you want [Frame > Size to Text].  Inkscape, unfortunately, has no such function.  The manual work-around is copy the text, then select the frame, then [Edit > Paste Size > Paste Size].  Use [Path > Linked Offset] to create a margin around the text.

Instead of [Text > Flow into Frame], you want [Frame > Size to Text].  Inkscape, unfortunately, has no such function.  The manual work-around is copy the text, then select the frame, then [Edit > Paste Size > Paste Size].  Use [Path > Linked Offset] to create a margin around the text.

Thanks. I think I have my answer. Not going to search more. I think Inkscape is not the best tool to make clean ans useful chartflows.

Thanks for your time.

It's much too late for the OP I'm sure, but maybe someone will find this thread in the future.  There is a solution!

https://inkscape.org/forums/tutorials/dynamic-text-frame/

Hi Paddy_CAD.  i'm pretty much brand new to Inkscape, and trying to lay out a Command Board for the local ROTC.  It would be a great help to have the capability you describe, but i'm too newb to even understand what you said above (or how to implement it).  This shows up as a "tutorial" but i'm not sure what to do to see the tutorial?  Am i missing something?

thanks in advance.....

Hello again PaddyCAD.  I found some more information and figured out how to get the text box using the LPE, from a conversation you were having with @thundrslug.  So thanks for that.  i'm trying to get the margin around the text that you described here https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/text-box-adjust-size-and-margins/  but too newb to follow your instructions.  any help appreciated.