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OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials

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OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials

Overview of this book

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why settle for anything less? Creating good visualizations to substantiate your ideas is essential in today's corporate environment. Use OmniGraffle's remarkably powerful and flexible features to get your diagrams right. Although fun to use, it can get cumbersome to find out exactly how to get what you want.This book will teach you how to make stunning diagrams without spending much time and energy. No matter if you have never used OmniGraffle, or if you are using it on a daily basis, this book will teach you how to get the most out of this splendid diagramming tool. It will first teach you the basics of the program and then extend your knowledge to a higher level.The book will teach you to make eye-popping visuals using a lot of useful, step-by-step examples. It begins with covering concepts that beef up your basics of using OmniGraffle. The earlier chapters will teach you to prepare dazzling diagrams from scratch with the many stencils, shapes, and fonts that are included in OmniGraffle. As your understanding of OmniGraffle broadens, the book will go even deeper to explain the less understood features of the software. It also covers some handy time-saving techniques such as workspaces and keyboard shortcuts.By the time you reach the end of this book, you will have mastered OmniGraffle to turn your ideas into diagrams.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
Preface
9
OmniGraffle workspaces
Index

Amending your income flow diagram


The diagram you created earlier in this chapter is a bit boring for a young person to understand. Adults may be happy with cylinders, but they are not very childish. Your job is to amend this diagram into a more childish design.

Let's start with the aim of the diagram: Saving $ 0.50. Why not use a piggy bank for this part of the diagram? If you search Graffletopia using the word piggy bank, you should find a stencil called Cash Flow which does have a piggy bank symbol. Install this and amend your diagram using the piggy bank instead of the cylinder.

Given that the symbol of the piggy bank is well known in the western world as a savings symbol, you may even remove the word saving below the symbol.

You can now continue amending your diagram with various symbols and shapes from existing stencils on Graffletopia. For instance, you could use the cash register from the Cash Flow stencil to replace the food cylinder.

A word of caution before you go completely crazy...