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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

Shape style properties


Some of the style properties and parameters are shared by compound shapes, line shapes and text shapes. Specific shape properties are covered in the respective sections on shapes.

Shape stroke inspector and the color of a stroke

The common dialog of the Lines and Shapes property inspector is all you need to control the look and feel of a stroke. It does not matter what kind of shape the stroke belongs to. The shape can be a compound shape, a line shape, or a text shape.

The following table lists out some of the controls in the Lines and Shapes property inspector:

The Stroke checkbox toggles whether a shape will have a line or not.

If you have selected a line shape, this element is disabled as a line will always have a line stroke.

These two elements are called the Single Stroke and the Double Stroke buttons. These two buttons control the number of strokes a shape can have. A shape may be drawn with a single stroke or a double stroke.

If you have clicked...