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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

Subgraphs


The features described in this section are only available in the OmniGraffle Professional version. If you do not have the professional version, you can skip this section.

If you've ever created a really big OmniGraffle diagram with hundreds of shapes, you'll soon find that zooming in and out, and moving around your diagram all the time, is on the brink of annoying.

If your diagram is built in a way that makes it possible to group certain parts of your diagram together—you can create a subgraph.

A subgraph is a special kind of group for shapes that can be collapsed and expanded on command. Shapes within the subgraph are hidden and shown accordingly. Any lines to shapes within the subgraph will become lines to the subgraph when collapsed.

To make a subgraph is as simple as selecting a few shapes, then using the Arrange | Group as Subgraph menu command. Your shapes will now be enclosed in a rectangle which can be styled as you want.

To ungroup a subgraph, use the Arrange | Ungroup menu...