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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 Grid Property inspector revisited


In Chapter 6, Making your Diagram Look Good you took a quick look at the Grid Property inspector, we are now going to take a look at the inspector as a whole.

In the previous screenshot, you can see that the Major Grid Spacing is 2,54 centimeters wide. This means that for each 2,54 cm there is a grid stroke (2,54 cm equals to 1 inch). Depending on how you set up your canvas, your document will normally be set to either Imperial or Metric measurement units. You will learn all about this in the section about the Canvas Size Property inspector.

Note

OmniGraffle does not care if you enter your decimals using a comma or a period, as it will convert this to the proper format depending on your system setup.

No matter what you enter in the Major Grid Spacing input field, you will not see these changes unless you make the grid visible. Using the View | Gridlines menu command can do this or you can use the ⌘+\ keyboard shortcut command. You can also use the...