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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

Organizing stencils


After you have imported alot of stencils, your STENCIL LIBRARY will become a mess.

For illustrative purposes, we have put a screen capture sideways, showing a third of the STENCIL LIBRARY after approximately six months of using OmniGraffle for an ordinary user.

This is quite messy but very easy to fix.

Right-click on any of the stencils and select the Show In Finder menu command:

All you have to do now is create appropriate folders and move corresponding stencils into those folders.

If you create folders with the same name as the built-in folders in OmniGraffle both your imported or created stencils and the built-in stencils will be available in those folders.

In the screenshot shown next you see the Stencils folder after the re-organization and on the right the STENCILS FOLDER in OmniGraffle.