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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

Aligning shapes to the document grid


By using the Smart Guides, you really do not have to care about where your shapes are placed relative to the canvas grid. However, if you create diagrams that involve shapes that have to be correctly sized to match the "real world", you can get a lot of help from OmniGraffle by enabling the Snap to grid checkbox and the Edges on grid button on the Grid Property inspector.

The following discussion will demonstrate how OmnniGraffle will help you create a floor plan (as seen in the previous picture) for an exhibition your company is holding.

  • Your company, which sells maritime gear, is arranging an exhibition for your customers. You have invited all your suppliers, and they will exhibit products and goods.

  • The exhibition is held in a room measuring 20 X 30 meters (65.62 X 98.42 feet).

The first thing you have to set up is a grid that will help you in drawing your diagram. A normal measurement in this regard is letting 1 cm on paper equal 1 m in real life ...