You can definitely just draw a box around any of this stuff.  Use the rectangle tool or bezier tool.  If you need to keep everything together so you can move it around as a single object select everything and group it together. 

 

A better method might be to flow your text into an object.  Type the text, draw the object, select both, and use the flow text command under the text menu.  This is fairly easy and dynamic as well.  So, you can adjust the shape as needed and let the text will adjust to flow into it appropriately . 

 

Good Luck. 

 

On 10/22/07, Keith Trnka <trnka@...2373...> wrote:

I'm looking to do two things and I can't tell if it's reasonable or
possible from any online documentation, and I'm wondering if anyone's
had a similar problem or found a solution.  The gist of what I'm
doing is making drafts of user interfaces with Inkscape.

The first thing I'm trying to do is have text with a border around
it.  If it's possible to somehow draw a box at the outset of the
bounding box, that'd be perfect.

The second thing is similar, but for groups of objects.  But instead
of needing to draw a box at the outset of the bounding box for groups
of objects, it's like I need to merge each object's outset-box.  For
example, say I have three objects in an L-shape.  I'd need the border
to also be L-shaped.

Does anyone know if it's possible in Inkscape or has anyone done this?

thanks,
keith

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