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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

Tables


The features described in this section are only available in the OmniGraffle Professional version. If you do not have the professional version, you can skip this section.

This is another special case of grouping shapes together. The difference between this method of grouping shapes and the Subgraph and the ordinary shape grouping is that the table grouping organizes your shapes in columns and rows.

You can take any shapes on your canvas and make these into a table. It is as simple as selecting the shapes you want to use as a table and issuing the Arrange | Make Table menu command.

Since the table is just another special case of a group—you can use the Arrange | Ungroup menu command to dismantle an existing table.

Let's make a table.

Start with a new blank canvas.

Add an oblong shape just a tad larger than the text field inside the shape:

The next step is to issue the Arrange | Make Table, or you can use the ⇧+⌘+T keyboard shortcut command. Your shape gets four new resizing table handles...