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Title: Resize text box without affecting relative position of contour lines.
Post by: PastaShock on November 17, 2025, 03:05:48 PM
I'm working on a book where I need to place a text box inside a text box and there needs to be a 4 mm border around the text box inside the other one. Here is a picture of what I am trying to accomplish:

(https://i.imgur.com/FsWSkMd.png)

The way I did this is by using countour lines. But the issue I am having is I am re-using these two text boxes multiple times down the page, and sometimes I need to resize the small inner text box in the upper right corner. When I do that, the countour lines change and no longer maintain the 4 mm padding. Is there a way to resize the text box and maintain the 4 mm padding? Is there a better way to do this than contour lines?
Title: Re: Resize text box without affecting relative position of contour lines.
Post by: PastaShock on November 17, 2025, 03:18:50 PM
Ok, I think I have a solution. I got rid of the contour lines and instead used column and text distances and set the right and bottom text distance to 4 mm. I don't know why I didn't think of this last night...
Title: Re: Resize text box without affecting relative position of contour lines.
Post by: AdmFubar on November 17, 2025, 10:08:50 PM
That is what i was going to suggest you do.