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.
text-margin-sample.dia
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