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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
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OmniGraffle workspaces
Index

Chapter 2. Stencils

The previous chapter taught you how to build diagrams from the ground up, using only the built-in shape tool. This chapter will extend your OmniGraffle proficiency by showing you that Stencils are great time savers.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a good diagram is worth tenfold. We'll go through a few simple, easy to remember rules, that will make your diagram stand out from the crowd.

In this chapter, you are going to get an introduction to Stencils and the Stencils Library (pictured next). The chapter will continue extending your knowledge into managing and creating your own Stencils.

Note

A very good reason for creating your own stencils is to select the most common shapes you use in your day-to-day diagramming and put this into a favorite shapes stencil.

OmniGraffle does have a Favorite Stencils collection available. You'll later learn how to manage this. However, the name favorite shape stencil does not indicate that such a function is built into OmniGraffle...