Text box and text wrapping

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Oly

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Aug 12, 2008, 6:51:19 AM8/12/08
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Firstly, let me just say thanks for giving us Pencil, it is a simple
and brilliant. Next onto my question ....

I have just been mocking up a screen and using some text boxes, I can
not seem to find a way to get text to wrap in text boxes. I have tried
the normal ctrl+enter, alt+enter etc. If I have missed it please can
you let me know what I am doing wrong, if not please can you add this
to the wish list.

Duong Thanh An

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Aug 12, 2008, 10:34:39 PM8/12/08
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Hello,

For the time being, text in text boxes cannot be wrap. You can do this
by combining an empty text box with a block of rich text.

/an

Vincas Dundzys

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Dec 11, 2012, 5:29:45 AM12/11/12
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I'm having the same issue and rich text is not a solution too. I encourage developers to iplement this feature for all elements containing text, that it would wrap text according to the size of the text box.

This is not a "nice to have" feature, but it would really speed up the sketching process.

John Murphy

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Nov 13, 2013, 8:26:25 PM11/13/13
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A great product!

I too find the inability to wrap text in a text box to be very limiting.

Duong Thanh An

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Nov 14, 2013, 2:22:54 AM11/14/13
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Hi,

Please let me know exactly the shape you are using and was unable to wrap the text.
For the plain text shape, turning on "Fixed width" and using "Shift + Enter" will help.

/an


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Russ Michaels

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Nov 14, 2013, 3:46:51 AM11/14/13
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John Murphy

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Nov 14, 2013, 5:06:59 PM11/14/13
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That worked, but I the yellow sizing icon is hard to see. Perhaps make it red?




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John Murphy

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Nov 14, 2013, 5:29:32 PM11/14/13
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Plain text shape  with "Fixed width" and using "Shift + Enter" worked. 

Part of the problem is that the drag icon is yellow and almost invisible in Chrome. Perhaps make it red?
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