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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

Style replication using the Style Brush Tool


The Style Brush Tool will copy the style from a selected shape and apply the style to other shapes on your canvas.

This tool is very handy if you need to selectively decide on which shapes you want to copy a style to. Compared to using the Style Tray—; this tool is quicker to use for tasks involving deploying the whole style from one shape. However, if you need more fine-grained control the Style Tray is probably the quicker tool to use.

This does not mean that the Style Brush Tool does not have the ability to apply only a few styles from one shape to another—it has, and you will learn to do this in a few moments.

Let's learn to use the Style Brush Tool by experimenting.

  1. Create five different shapes (rectangle, circle, diamond, cloud, and star), and fill the rectangle shape with some light blue background color.

  2. Double-click on the Style Brush Tool as you will be using it more than once.

    When you first click on the Style Brush Tool icon in the Canvas...