Bug 160724 - Easy way to toggle adapt Fit Height to text/ Fit Width to text on for Textbox
Summary: Easy way to toggle adapt Fit Height to text/ Fit Width to text on for Textbox
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.0.0 alpha0+ Master
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Textbox
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Reported: 2024-04-18 20:49 UTC by Telesto
Modified: 2024-05-03 17:12 UTC (History)
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Description Telesto 2024-04-18 20:49:28 UTC
Description:
Easy way to toggle adapt Fit Height to text/ Fit Width to text on for Textbox

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Draw
2. Insert a textbox with reasonable size
3. Type ABC
4. Exit the textbox

Actual Results:
Large textbox with little content (ABC)

Expected Results:
1) Oversized objects (textbox being larger compared to content) is hard to handle 
2) Manually resizing (multiple) textboxes to text size time consuming. And well you can start over on each text edit. 
3) Adding the setting to Fit Height/ Size a hassle. Buried deeply in the dialog.
4) Having to check 2 checkboxes. 

Adjusting textbox to text seems rather normal/common wish. Easier access would be lovely. Right click Context Menu: Fit height/width to text as checkbox, so you can toggle it off. Alternative/ or in additional some option in the sidebar controlling the size.

I tend to go so far to inverse it: default shrink textbox to text, and manually disabling it. But well that's probably asking to much


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
Version: 24.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 748561425774fa40ab685fed80d113f7e8301158
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2024-04-19 07:23:05 UTC
We have a command "Fit To Frame" not in the main menu (!) but available via the shortcut shift+ctrl+F8, which adjusts the text so it fills the size of the text box. I believe an enhancement in the other way "Fit to Text" is very reasonable.

We had a discussion in the past on bug 114924 about "Adapt shape Width/Height to text option not available" (resolved WFM with the idea that we can adjust the height or width via the dialog), bug 116898 "Please provide Autofit option also for regular text boxes" (resolved WFM since customization is possible)