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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

Fast diagramming using the Diagramming Tool


If you are used to diagramming with other tools, you may miss the functionality where you can put shapes on the canvas and they immediately connect to the previous shape. Creating diagrams with this kind of functionality makes for super-quick diagramming.

In OmniGraffle using the Diagramming Tool will give you this functionality.

When using this tool it makes sense to double-click on the icon to set the tool into the multiple usages.

Clicking anywhere on the canvas will place the shape currently selected by the Shape Tool in the Canvas Toolbar.

Notice the mouse pointer symbol to the right of the shape. The mouse pointer will give you a visual clue on how the connecting line will behave in conjunction to the connecting shapes. The pointer seen above indicates that the start of the line will be connected from the previous shape, and that the end of the line will be connected to the new shape.

Clicking next to your shape will create a line between the...