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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.