add a horizontal/vertical constraint to the point on bottom of the bounding boxĪ bit of extra work due to the lack of a center point for the letter and a bounding box for the font that is not the same shape as the font. add a horizontal/vertical constraint between the point where you want the letter to the point on the side of the bounding box add a horizontal/vertical constraint between the top and bottom points that you added add a point to the center of the top construction lineĤ. add a point to the center of the bottom construction line It will be below the midpoint of the longer construction line that makes up the bounding box for the text. add a point to the midpoint of the construction line you just created. Create the letter slightly above and slightly to the right of its center anchor point.Īdd a construction line from the lower left corner up the side even with the top of the letter or number. To use a specified spacing, select the Spacing between words value field and enter the distance. Go to Spacing between words, then use the Up and Down arrows to adjust the spacing. To modify all text in a text box, click inside the text box. And yes that's a bit of a pain.ġ - Create a center anchor point for the letterĢ. Click and drag to highlight the words to adjust. Or possibly post in the "Inkscape Ideas" section ( viewforum.php?f=28) on the centering a single letter, the work is quite easy.Ī construction Line, four points, and three vertical horizontal constraints need to be added to each letter. I'm starting my enquiry here but I might post to the Bugs system ( ) as a new feature request. I'm looking for a solution to the vertical centering problem - specifically with "flow into frame". Your original post is over two months old so you might not be looking for a solution anymore or maybe you've found one. See also the Inkscape FAQ for some info on this subject (. Flowed text (I don't know specifically about centering horizontally and vertically) does however seem to be supported in an old draft for SVG 1.2 (see ) which dates back to 2004 and I don't quite understand where it stands now. Except the rectangle is invisible and instead of being a link from the flowed text it is more of an embedded rectangle.Īs for SVG in general, my understanding is that what your request cannot be done with the current version of SVG which seems to be version 1.1 (see ). From this you can see that creating a rectangular text area seems to be almost identical to using the "flow into frame" feature to combine text and a rectangle object. option so that you can see what's going on at the XML level. I would suggest that you use the Edit -> XML Editor. Since you mentioned "HTML div with text-align:center and vertical-align:middle", I'll assume that you might be interested in some more technical information about this. Also, you can add text and it should remain centered horizontally. You can enlarge the rectangular text area without enlarging the text - the trick to this is to make sure you select and resize the rectangular text area and not the text itself - do this by double clicking on the text. Then, as brynn suggested, use the "Text and Font" dialog to center horizontally. Then type your text in this rectangular area. Instead of just clicking at one spot on your diagram and then typing text, you should click and drag which will create a rectangular area for text. rectangle) and then create text and then combine them with "flow into frame", you can use the "create and edit text objects" button. If you want to do what you requested, except for the vertical centering, and you don't want to explicitly create a new object (e.g. So far I've found that most of this can be achieved with Inkscape except for the vertical centering (of horizontal text), which is also important to me.Īs you mentioned, ".The "Flow into Frame" effect seems to do the trick, except for the vertical centering.". I'm looking for the same functionality as you describe.