When text is centered, anchor should be centered too

[Maxberger]

Dear Developers,

When trying to center a text using a restrictive grid, I currently have
to:

- edit the text
- move the anchor to the position i want it
- then select "centered" in the layout box.

and when i want to move the text, i have to do the same thing again,
because the anchor stays at the bottom left.

Instead, it would be nice if the anchor would actually be in the middle on
centered layout (and on the right in right layout).

Thanks

Version:
0.45 final

[Daniel Pope (djpope)]

Originator: NO

The anchor does reflect how the text is positioned, but it does not itself
snap to the grid. Only the bounding box snaps to the grid, which is why you
can't snap a centred anchor to the grid.

I agree that it should be made possible for text anchors to snap to the
grid.

[vonHalenbach (lustik)]

Could you put your wish into a drawing, so that it would be easier for the developers to see, how exactly you want it to be implemented. I can't really follow your descriptions. You know, a picture is worth a thousand words :-)

[Max Berger (max-berger)]

Here you can see that the alignment where the alignment point should be (when the text is centered)- although the text is centered, i cannot snap its center to the grid (it is one pixel to the left of where it should be)

hope this makes more sense

Max

[vonHalenbach (lustik)]

Yeah, thank you! Now i can see it. I have switched the status to triaged, so that a developer can pick this up and put it into the source.

[Mercury (mercury13)]

+1.
I made some sort of table with IS. Well, I found a way to circumvent, but PLEASE DO...

[Mercury (mercury13)]

In 0.46 it's still missing.

[Dario Teixeira (darioteixeira)]

I second this report. This bug is so annoying I can't believe it lasted this long in Inkscape. It forces me to go back to Xfig to draw some diagrams just because that programme handles this issue correctly.

[Jelle Haandrikman (jhaand)]

I've been using Inkscape to create mechanical diagrams for about half a year at work. I like Inkscape for the ease of use and a lot of the features to create diagrams.
Before I used XFig but it's really showing it's age.

I agree with the previous post. XFig had this behaviour nailed down correctly. When you change the alignement of the text, the aligned text moves around the anchor. So when multiple text blocks are re-aligned, you can move than all together.

Not the current behavior that you have to reposition the text after editing it.

Even worse. If you want to position several fields with right alignment, you have to activate Snap -> "Bounding box corners" Then move the box(es) and deactivate the Snap, Bounding box corners. Otherwise, I can't position my

The current state costs me a lot of extra work and adds frustration.

Could someone please pick this up?

[LucaDC (lucadc)]

I've noticed that the text anchor is not aligned to the center of the text: if you drag a vertical guide you get two (usually slightly) different snapping positions for object rotation center and text baseline.
The amount of error depends on what the text is: try with "Ciao " (note the space at the end).

[Diederik van Lierop (mail-diedenrezi)]

Yes, you're right about this. I've noticed that the start and endpoints do not necessarily coincide with the bounding box. Therefore its midpoint does not align with the center of the object either. Try changing some text to italics. This will change the bounding box, but it will not change the baseline.

The bounding box is as it is, we cannot change that obviously. The baseline is defined by the font I believe, so that's probably out of our control too. So I guess this alignment error cannot be solved.