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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

Diagram Templates


Diagram Templates are used every time you start a new OmniGraffle document. If you start a new document by using the File | New menu command, or the⌘+N keyboard shortcut command—a default Diagram Template is used.

OmniGraffle comes with a few templates built in. You can take a look at these templates by using the File | Template Chooser—or use the ⇧+⌘+N keyboard shortcut.

If you choose a to create a new diagram based on one of the templates in the template overview—you'll get a new diagram containing the shapes you saw in the overview. Using templates can be a big time saver.

Templates contain not only the size of your canvas, but also the grid layout, layers, and so on.

You can also make your own template based on an existing template by selecting a template from the template overview, and the clicking on the New Template button. Edit your template as you see fit and when you save, the template will appear in the Miscellaneous section next time you choose to use the File...