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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

Searching and importing stencils from Graffletopia


There are two methods of importing stencils into OmniGraffle: A manual method and an automatic method. You use the manual method if the stencils you are importing are not found on Graffletopia. Such stencils may be company-internal stencils, or even commercial ones.

The manual method of importing any stencils

This method works with any stencils, not only the ones found at Graffletopia, but for the sake of explanation we'll use Graffletopia as an example.

Lets say you need to annotate your diagram, but adding a lot of lines and text will clutter up the diagram. A common way to annotate a diagram is to use numbers or letters surrounded by a circle. In the accompanying text you can then explain in length about each annotated point.

You start by creating small circles with numbers inside. You find this extremely tiresome after a while, and ask yourself if there is a ready-made stencil available.

You go to the Graffletopia home page and enter numbers...