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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

Zooming the Canvas


There are a couple of ways to zoom in to the very details of your diagram.

The most obvious way is to use the various View | Zoom menu commands. There are even a few keyboard shortcuts available to zoom in (⇧+⌥+⌘+=) and zoom out (⇧+⌥+⌘+-) in 100% steps increments. Unless you are using an American keyboard layout, none of these two keyboard shortcuts will be very intuitive to you.

A more intuitive keyboard shortcut is ⌥+⌘+0, which will bring the canvas back to the actual size of your diagram.

The second way is to use the Zoom button( ) at the bottom of your canvas. You can use the Zoom button to zoom to a certain percentage—this also includes a customized value.

The last, and maybe most visual and versatile method is to use the Zoom Tool found in the Canvas Toolbar.

Clicking on the Zoom Tool will change the mouse pointer to a magnifying glass with a plus sign inside() indicating that you are about to zoom into your diagram.

If you hold down the option key (⌥), the mouse pointer...