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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

Layer settings


There are three settings or states a layer can have. These settings are for visibility, if the layer is to be printed, and if the layer is locked.

Each of these three settings has its own symbol in the Canvases Sidebar. As you can see in the previous screenshot, you have an eye, a printer and a padlock icons, which corresponds to the respective settings.

You can easily toggle these settings on or off by moving your mouse over a layer and clicking on any of the icons. States that are enabled will be easily seen even if the mouse arrow is not currently present in the Canvases Sidebar. As you can see, the Triangle layer has its visibility turned off, as there is a slash through the eye-icon.

You can of course use the right-click context menu, the Action button menu and the Edit | Layers | Layers Settings menu commands to change the layer settings.

Visibility

You can use the visibility setting to hide or show a layer. This is handy if you have layers that portray different messages...