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.

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