Shapes in OmniGraffle comes in many forms.
You have rectangles, circles, squashed rectangles, diamonds, hexagons, octagons, triangles, arrows, double arrows, wedges that looks like PacMan stars, houses, puzzle pieces, cylinders, clouds, speech bubbles, lightning bolts, patches, hearts, and so on. These shapes are called compound shapes.
The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English language, fourth edition defines a compound to be a combination of two or more elements or parts. We are missing one type of shape, and that is the line. Line shapes are called singular shapes.
The second shape type missing is the text shape. We'll deal with this shape later in this chapter.
Shapes are the basic building blocks of diagrams. In the very first diagram you made in Chapter 1, Getting Started with OmniGraffle you used three different shapes: The rectangle in the form of an oblong, the diamond, and the line. You gave the shapes different characteristics...