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@thomaso I am trying to follow the first approach, but it seems like I will need to manually fix every box to fit the size of the text? I would like to avoid that. I want it to grow automatically to the size of the text, but it's not happening right now. I don't want to go over 150 text boxes and manually fix their width. I would like the width to be generated automatically. Is that possible here?

@Lee D Inserting a rectangle behind the text would work if I only had a couple of instances, but I have over 150 of these. I need something that scales for me automatically. A sample of just a single map that I have.

Thanks a lot for the responses! Thanks @GarryP for uploading the repro document. That's exactly what I see. I am using version 1.10.5. I have a lot (150+) of such bubbles, so I need to be able for the size of the bubble to fit them automatically. @thomaso I have trouble replicating your suggestion. How do I go about it?

I would like to set a round border around a piece of text. When I use Align Stroke to Outside, there is a strange artifact appearing. Both the fill and stroke are white - I don't know where is the other one coming from. That's picture 1. I know I can use Align Stroke To Center, but that doesn't work if I have some transparency. The stroke overlaps with the fill and overlays two semi-transparent colors. I can only use that with 100% alpha color, which is not what I want. That's picture 2. Does anyone know how I could create semi-transparent bubble around the text without any artifacts?

I am looking for a way to prepend/append symbols that are vertically aligned with the text. I attach an example - I would like to add crosses to headings. I can just put them manually and it works if the heading is single line + Introduction + But when it's multi line + Multi line heading + I would like both crosses to be centered vertically (and the text itself would be centered horizontally). Is that possible in the text box tool?