Please provide a skinparam to set a padding in pixels between participants and boxes on sequence diagrams

Question

I'd like to specify a "padding" in pixels between participants and boxes, e.g.

@startuml
skinparam ParticipantPadding 10
skinparam BoxPadding 20

box "B"
participant Alice
end box

Alice -> Bob : hello
@enduml

Answer 1

Thanks for the suggestion.

We like the idea of adding padding option, so here is a new beta:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13064071/plantuml.jar

This beta works with the following diagram:

@startuml
skinparam ParticipantPadding 10
skinparam BoxPadding 20

box "B"
participant Alice
end box

Alice -> Bob : hello
@enduml

This kind of modification is quite easy to do (when you are used to PlantUML code...), so we did it directly.
The setting can be set in pixel only (which is consistent other values).

Other padding settings may be implemented on demand, so please ask!

Regards

Comments

The final solution works perfectly !
Cheers ... Helmut

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Was this rolled out? In 1.2018.10 I don't see these parameters, but I would like to use them!

```
$> plantuml -language | grep -i pad
Padding
```

```
$> plantuml -version
PlantUML version 1.2018.10 (Sat Aug 25 13:02:59 EDT 2018)
(GPL source distribution)
Java Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
JVM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
Java Version: 10.0.1+10
Operating System: Mac OS X
OS Version: 10.13.6
Default Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en
Country: US
Machine: 8c8590c5b0ee
PLANTUML_LIMIT_SIZE: 4096
Processors: 8
Max Memory: 4,294,967,296
Total Memory: 268,435,456
Free Memory: 260,590,040
Used Memory: 7,845,416
Thread Active Count: 1

The environment variable GRAPHVIZ_DOT has been set to /usr/local/opt/graphviz/bin/dot
Dot executable is /usr/local/opt/graphviz/bin/dot
Dot version: dot - graphviz version 2.40.1 (20161225.0304)
Installation seems OK. File generation OK
```

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It is.
We just have to update the -language output.
BTW graphviz 2.40.1 has issues with PlantUML. You may consider downgrade to 2.38

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Would it be possible to implement padding for packages in component diagrams? It doesn't seem to be settable on packages in general or on individual packages - only globally on all elements through "skinparam Padding".

Also, when I set padding globally through "skinparam Padding" - it gets applied to packages, but there seems to be a bug where only top and bottom padding gets applied, but not on the sides of the package.

And there's another bug where packages aren't properly padded to accommodate interface text label, e.g. with this example:

@startuml

package "Application process" {

  component [Application] as Application

  interface "Some API" as API1
  [Some provider] as Provider

  API1 - Provider
  Application --> API1

} 

@enduml

The result looks like this:

https://ibb.co/f0L60fS (note how SomeAPI overflows on the left side)