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- From: mitroo@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Varun Mitroo)
- Subject: Re: Diagram question
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.021528.29314@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 02:15:28 GMT
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- In article <3736@cvbnetPrime.COM> skochhar@cvbnet.prime.com (Sandeep Kochhar x4618 5-2) writes:
- >
- >hi!
- >I've finally started using my Diagram package. While it seems
- >pretty good for many types of diagrams (and has fancy-looking examples),
- >I haven't been able to do something that I really need and is normally
- >very simple to do, even in drawing packages much simpler than a diagramming
- >package:
- >
- > 1. Basically, I want to have rectangles (boxes) whose text label is
- > horizontally and vertically centered in them. So far, it seems to me
- > that Diagram's boxes have horizontally centered labels, but not
- > vertically (they seem to start near the top of the box).
- >
- > 2. Similar problems with the text (objects?) as well. They don't seem
- > to have a good notion of "natural" size. I have to manually resize
- > them to the smallest box. This is again a pain when I need to
- > vertically center a text with some other object.
- >
- >Can someone tell me what I'm missing and/or the manual pages to read?
- >
-
- What you need to do is use the rectangles without their labels and place the
- text as separate objects. When you're happy with the placement, group the
- text and rectangle <cmd-g>. If you have many rectangles of the same size,
- it's much simpler to copy one and paste it several times than to do it
- manually every time. Grouping the two objects also gives you better control
- over text wrapping (eg. in the triangular and diamond shaped objects).
-
- Overall, Diagram is an excellent program! It's very easy and convenient to
- use, the results are almost always what you want, and the interface is very
- well designed. Someone really sweated bullets over this program! EVERYBODY
- in higher education should buy a copy. It costs $25.00 from NextConnection -
- well, $28 with shipping. It's the kind of program that you don't use all
- the time, but when you need to do something such as making a figure for a
- paper, it's very handy.
-
- Varun
-
- PS - It really helps to learn the command keys when using this program.
-