Hi,

Using the Inkscape verb "AlignVerticalCenter" I'm able to easily align an object through the CLI. When I do this, the object is vertically centered to the page.

Within the Inkscape GUI Align and Distribute interface, there is a dropdown titled "Relative to".

I would like to be able to "AlignVerticalCenter" relative to the drop-down menu value "selection area". Unfortunately, there does not seem to be a verb to set this "Relative to" value.

Anybody know of a workaround?

Any help is much appreciated.

Regards,

Wyatt

Selection area is not a preserved dimension in vector drawing programs the menu item is deceptive. it used to just say "selection" which means the bounding box of all selected items no matter how big a selection marquee was used, and it still works that way even though the word 'area' has been added. not sure if a verb exists for the old one but if it does it would probably be the same Does that help or maybe you knew that already?

I use it to vertically center text within a rectangle.

I select a rectangle, I select text. I choose "selection area", then press the align vertical center button and the text centers inside my box.

Is there a different way to vertically center text within a box automatically?

I thought it used the setting that was last set in the dialog for the command line functionality. So that isn't the case?

I can test this, but manually setting it in the GUI dialog doesn't really help my case, as I have some code actions that align by page, and require other code actions that need to be aligned by "selection area" within the same command line.

Ah, okay. These commands (--verb) don't take any parameters currently.

If you're fluent in python, you could write an extension that makes use of Inkscape's simpletransform.py file, and can read data from a file... :-/