Positioning or Repositioning SmartShape Symbols on a Page
As you have seen from Listing 14.3, positioning SmartShape symbols on a diagram page can be a challenge. How you attack this challenge is generally determined by the type of diagram that you are trying to produce. You have seen thus far that you can position symbols through a direct reference to an explicit X and Y value or by a percentage of the height and width of the page itself. Additional methods include relative offsets from symbols already on the page or layout algorithms established for the given diagram type.
Numerous references have been written with an incredible number of different theories about how auto-layout should be accomplished. The purpose of this book is not to teach ...
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