On 10/03/14 12:49, Hans Breuer wrote:
At 10.03.2014 09:11, Octavio Alvarez wrote:On 03/08/2014 05:04 AM, Hans Breuer wrote:[...]If you are not building Dia from source, please hesitate to drop in with your favorite feature request you want someone else to develop for you.It would be great to let objects (or at least texts) have configurable margins around. This will let me attach text objects to other shapes and automatically give them some space. Useful for labeling objects in network diagrams without making them look klunky or having to insert spaces manually. This could even be a general attribute available to any object.Having - and handling - an extra attribute for every object just to ensure text in some distance does not look like the right approach to me. But having a margin property with the Text object could work and even address an old request: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108770
Interesting suggestion! If the margin value could be specified it would be better (think: sticking a text to a box with a slim border vs a box with a thick border). I'm attaching a sample, just for exemplification. Best regards, and thanks again for the hard work.
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