Is there an easy way to add an empty border around the entire diagram in Dia?

Question

I'm generating a png, and the edges of the images are right alongside the outlying objects in the diagram. I'd like to add a little whitespace around the diagram. I've done it so far by adding white lines on two of the sides, but I was hoping there is a way to just specify a certain amount of padding either all the way around or per side. I don't see the setting myself.

Answer 1

You can draw the Standard-Box around your diagram and then just set its Draw Background property to No. Here you can layer you diagram and border box like this Layers -> Add Layer..., name the layer and now you can draw Standard-Box there.

Tip: If you don't see Layer Bar then just go to View->Show Layers.