How to resize page to fit drawing contents in Open office/Libre Office Draw

Question

I am programmatically drawing a flowchart in open office draw by means of Java UNO Runtime Reference api.After I have drawn the flowchart I want to resize the page according to the area aquired by the contents drawn.I have noticed that Microsoft Visio has a property called "size to fit drawing contents" in its "page setup" which does this when I draw flowchart in Visio.Pls suggest how can I do the same thing in Open office/Libre Office Draw.

Harmonium

Even in Inkscape (GPL free software) you have under Properties the possibility Resize page to content – Advisable

This bug seems fitting bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81118 – Elyssa

Answer 1

You can do it manually:

1. Press Ctrl-A to select everything.
2. Under Format>Position and Size you can see the exact size of the selection. It's helpful to copy the value of Width and Height to an editor (or a piece of paper). Click Cancel.
3. Open Format>Page: Set Width and Height according to the size of the selection. Set all Margins to zero. Click OK.
4. Open Format>Position and Size again: Set both Position X an Position Y to zero. Click OK.

Well, it's not so fast, but works.

Locule

One thing to note: sometimes the size does not account for the width of the line. For example, if you create a circle with a thick line, then the calculated width might cutoff the edges. You'll have to adjust. This sometimes happens when you export a select shape too. – Arroyo