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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

The Rulers and Inspector Bar


The Inspector Bar comes in two editions. The first bar shown here, is visible if you have selected a shape, the second version is visible if you are editing text.

Below the Inspector Bar are the canvas rulers.

Using the View | Rulers you can turn on and off the visibility of the inspector bar and the rulers. You can also use the ⌘+R keyboard shortcut command. We'll deal with the ruler later on.

The Shape Inspector Bar

The really nifty thing about the Shape Inspector Bar is that it gives you quick access to geometry settings from the Geometry property inspector, color fillings from the Fill property inspector, line controls from the Line and Shapes property inspector, shadow control from the Shadow property inspector, and finally the connection toggle from the Connection property inspector.

Instead of opening and closing all these inspectors for a lot of common tasks, you can use the Shape Inspector Bar instead.

Granted, what you get from the Shape Inspector Bar...