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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

Summary


You have now learned everything there is to about creating diagrams in OmniGraffle. The rest of the book will cover various properties and styling options not covered so far.

This chapter explained the rest of the tools on the canvas toolbar, including how to customize the toolbar keeping only the tools you normally use.

By deploying Diagramming Tools, Mouseless Editing, and using the Outline function you can create your diagrams amazingly fast. The Diagramming Tool lets you create new connected shapes using your mouse—and the Mouseless Editing and the Outline function gave you the opportunity to edit your diagrams without using a mouse at all.

You learned how to quickly absorb a style from one shape and paint the style onto other shapes—this may be quicker than using the Canvas Style Tray and the Canvas Selection inspector palette.

You learned everything you ever need to know about magnetic connection points—including how to customize these to fit your particular shapes.

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