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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

Chapter 4. More Tools for Editing Diagrams

So far you have learned to create a diagram the hard way to learn the basics of what goes into making a diagram from nothing to the finished drawing. This chapter is going to teach you to use time saving tools when working with your diagrams.

These tools are found in the Expanded Canvas Toolbar.

For certain kinds of diagrams, you can use OmniGraffle without even touching the mouse.

In this chapter, you will cover the following topics:

  • The Expanded Canvas Toolbar and its keyboard shortcuts

  • The Canvas Toolbar tools not covered so far like the pen tool, the diagramming tool, style brush tool, and so on

  • How to make an interactive diagram using the Action Browse Tool and the Action Property Inspector

  • Automatic layout and mouseless editing

  • How the outlines and list functions will let you create hierarchical diagrams the easy way

  • How to apply diagram styles to quickly change your diagram's appearance.