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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

Summary


This chapter expanded your knowledge and experience about all the properties in OmniGraffle that are covered elsewhere in the book. Depending on your use of OmniGraffle, it might be that you never even have to touch most of the properties covered in this chapter.

On the other hand, you did learn all there is regarding the Grid Property inspector. This is the inspector you'll need to make your diagrams very tidy.

The next logical step up from the grid's properties are the Canvas properties, and here we took a close look at the Canvas Size Property inspector. This inspector will aid you in creating very precise diagrams, including advanced scaling options.

By using the Document Property inspector you can control how OmniGraffle is saving its data. You have the choice to save data in one simple file, or as a package file.

There is also another property inspector dealing with the document—the Data Property inspector. Use this inspector to keep information about your diagram and of course...