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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

Working with shapes on layers


As long as you take a note of which layer is the active layer by looking at the pencil( ) denoting the active layer, and which layer has the small rectangle( ) denoting the layers your current selected object is associated with, you will save yourself a lot of headache.

There are only two related operations on shapes you will need to perform with regard to layer. The first operation is copying or moving shapes from one layer to the active layer. The other operation is moving all shapes from one layer to any other layer.

Copying or moving one or more shapes from a layer into the active layer is as simple as marking the shapes you want to copy (or move) and either using the Edit | Copy or Edit | Cut, and Edit | Paste menu commands. You can of course use the corresponding keyboard shortcut commands.

If you want to move every shape on one layer to another layer, then you have the Edit | Layers | Select All in Layer menu, or the Action button, command. This...