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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 Canvas Size Property inspector


The Canvas Size Property inspector controls not only the size of the canvas, but also how the canvas will match any printed output.

This is also where you set your measurement units. These units can be Imperial units (inches, feet, yards, and miles), Metric units (millimeters, centimeters, meters, and kilometers), typographic units (points and picas), and finally screen units as in pixels.

The Canvas Size input fields control the height and width of the canvas in whatever measurement unit you prefer.

The default measurement unit is in pages, but you can easily use inches, cm, pixels, points, and so on.

This checkbox controls whether or not the edges of the canvas will automatically snap to the edges of the page.

The reason for enabling this checkbox is if your canvas is bigger than your printed matter (page, DVD-sleeve, business cards, and so on). By having a bigger canvas than the printed matter—diagrams can be split over two pages which...