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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

Replicating shapes using the Rubber Stamp Tool


The Rubber Stamp Tool is an efficient tool if you need to copy or replicate one shape more than once.

The Rubber Stamp Tool has two states—one state where the tool is ready to copy another shape, and the other state where the tool is ready to place copies of the shape on the canvas. You can see which state the Rubber Stamp Tool is in by looking at the small rectangle on the stamp. If the rectangle is empty( ) the tool is ready to copy a shape. If the rectangle is filled( ) the tool is ready to place copies on the canvas.

Lets use the Rubber Stamp Tool to copy some of the shapes in the previous section.

When you click on the tool, the mouse pointer changes into a rubber stamp icon.

Click on the tool and place it over the circle—notice that the rectangle on the stamp is not yet filled.

Now click with your mouse and watch the rectangle on the stamp icon become black.

As you move the stamp-shaped mouse pointer around, you'll notice that there is a square...