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Some colleagues and I are working on the Google Slide Add-On called Refine. In this add-on we utilize the google slide API. To improve our product we are in need of detailed information of the position of the text within a box. Sometimes the text boundaries are outside of the actual page element (see figure 1), and other times it is within the boundaries of the page element overflowing(see figure 2). Figure 1 Figure 2

What we would highly appreciate is data points on the text boundaries, see figure 3 and 4 for an example of what kind of boundary information we would like. The boundaries we would like information about are the dashed lines. Figure 3 Figure 4

We've looked a lot into the api documentation but could not find any place this data points. It is natural for us to think that this could be part of TextRange, but as we understand it this service is currently missing.

We would highly appreciate this feature and I would love to give you some more information if wanted. With this feature in place, we are able to increase the value offering of our add-on a lot.

Aerials
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  • You should create a Feature Request in Google's Issue Tracker, where these questions will be addressed, and you can communicate more about the idea too. I looked for the template to file Slides API feature requests. Here it is: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=191598&template=823918 – Aerials Nov 26 '20 at 15:50
  • related https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53218561/how-do-you-tell-whether-text-fits-within-its-bounding-shape https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60998706/is-it-possible-to-get-the-pixel-length-of-a-string-in-google-apps-script – Kos Dec 10 '20 at 17:32

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