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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

Shared layers


Shared layers are only found in the professional version of OmniGraffle. If you do not have the professional version, you can skip this part.

A layer can be shared between canvases thus the name shared layers. A shared layer behaves a tiny bit different from ordinary layers: When you change the content of the shared layer this change is reflected on all canvases sharing the layer. However, there is no difference when it comes to editing shapes on a shared layer, this works as normal. If you copy, or move, shapes to and from a shared layer, this will of course be reflected on all canvases sharing the layer.

You are now going to learn how to work with shared layers, by doing an example. You can use any of your existing OmniGraffle documents—or you can work with the document from earlier in this chapter. The name of the document is Layers 3 shapes and is found in the folder named Chapter 8 in the download bundle.

We're going to extend this document with another canvas, but most...