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mpelletier
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago
Status:
Closed

Align Text/Center text for dialogue in Paper docs

I think this should be a pretty easy one - I'd love to be able to align text, particularly center aligned, but right and justify would likely have valid uses for a lot of people as well.

For my part, I'm a comic writer and since we use Dropbox for storing all of our production assets, being able to store the scripts there in Paper would be incredibly useful (rather than having to upload RTF files or use Google Docs separately) but the lack of being able to center text for dialogue makes this not really feasible.

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  • Fiona's avatar
    Fiona
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    5 years ago
    Status changed:
    New
    to
    Gathering Support

    I am changing the status here, to let our users know they can upvote this idea to promote it to our team. :slight_smile: :chart_with_upwards_trend:

    Cheers!

  • LillyS's avatar
    LillyS
    Explorer | Level 4
    5 years ago

    Please please please get this feature!  I need to center text, images etc.  Thank you!

  • chonga's avatar
    chonga
    Explorer | Level 3
    5 years ago

    Would love to see this Paper wide. e.g. in Tables also

  • Skipyellow's avatar
    Skipyellow
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    NECESSITY!! adding these kinds of constraints will improve this application tenfold.

     

    as well as:

    • Using an image to link to other paper documents (for use as go back or forward clickthroughs)
    • Being able to move images above main header (maybe lock to top of page constraint?)
    • Text boxes for adding new paragraph alignments.
    • Background colour customization (including gradients)

     

  • smk2's avatar
    smk2
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    How to align center text in dropbox paper?

  • tomh05's avatar
    tomh05
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    Yes, this would help a lot! Left, center and right align.

  • renderlogic's avatar
    renderlogic
    New member | Level 2
    5 years ago

    Yes, please, Dropbox.  I mean this should be a no brainier to have text alignment.  However, I understand everything has a reason so I am curious as to why you left this insanely common, utterly simple and useful feature out?

  • Walter's avatar
    Walter
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    3 years ago
    Status changed:
    Gathering Support
    to
    Not for right now

    Thank you for your idea, while we can’t take every idea forward we do regularly re-review and will update you if anything changes!

  • cwbateman's avatar
    cwbateman
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    Adding my support for this feature!! I like Using Dropbox paper for share documents with clients and need more formatting options, most especially the ability to align text. The Google Docs integration just isn't as seamless as we need it to be in order to make the switch.

  • i__am_dinesh_'s avatar
    i__am_dinesh_
    New member | Level 2
    3 years ago

    Actually being a UI & UX Researcher, I use dropbox paper for documentation, pasting images, and playing with layouts. So I like to paste or write quotes at the center of the page so you guys might know, how we vertically center align text. So I want you guys to work on the feature that allows users to center-align the text. (I know that dropbox paper is inspired by a clean white paper that can play multiple roles).

     

    Also, add features to add shadows, or frames to the images we add to our papers in Dropbox Paper.