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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

Using OmniGraffle as a presentation tool


If you feel that Microsoft PowerPoint or Apple Keynote is not the tool you are most comfortable with, why not use OmniGraffle as a presentation tool?

Creating a presentation

Creating presentations is as simple as using a canvas for each of the slides you want to have in your presentation.

As most of the computer screens and projectors operate in the landscape mode, you can save yourself a lot of headache by setting up your OmniGraffle document in the landscape mode. This is achieved by using the File | Page Setup... menu command (the corresponding keyboard shortcut is ⇧+⌘+P).

Starting, navigating, and stopping your presentation

You can start your OmniGraffle presentation by using the View | Start Presentation or by using the ⌥+⌘+P keyboard shortcut command.

OmniGraffle will now go into full screen mode.

You stop the presentation mode by pressing the Esc key.

You can navigate between the canvases by using the arrow keys. Another way of doing the same...