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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

The ColorSync support


Your Apple Macintosh comes with a very cool feature called ColorSync. If you are using your Mac for graphics work, you are probably already familiar with the ColorSync concept.

ColorSync will ensure that what you see on a ColorSync enabled monitor and what's being printed on a ColorSync enabled printer will look exactly the same.

ColorSync support is controlled from the ColorSync preference pane. Use the OmniGraffle | Preferences... menu command to open up the preference panel.

If you enable ColorSync by checking the Use Color Profiles checkbox, the program will save color profile information along with the OmniGraffle document—or any of your exported graphics files.

If you try to import graphics files that have embedded color profile information, OmniGraffle will use this information accordingly. The same applies if you open an OmniGraffle document that is color profile enabled. You can control what OmniGraffle will do in these circumstances by using the drop-down menu...