[Ipe-discuss] Function to align elements relative to page

[Otfried Cheong]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2022, at 21:24, Michael Kruger via Ipe-discuss wrote:
> Particularly for presentations, it would be useful to be able to align 
> elements relative to the page/canvas, and not relative to other 
> elements.
>
> Perhaps there is a way to do this with the existing 'align and 
> distribute' functions, but it seems to me that they all align elements 
> relative to each other, and not the page.

There certainly is - just use the function "Insert media box" from the goodies ipelet, and then align with respect to that.

But I understand this is annoying if you need to do it often, so attached is an ipelet that will align to the page.

> Perhaps the existing 'align center', 'align H center' and 'align V 
> center' could be changed so that if only one element is selected, then 
> they align relative to the page?

Yes, that's a good idea.  I'll put it in the next version.

Cheers,
  Otfried

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