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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

Color picker tricks


So far in the book you have changed the color of a shape, lines and text by first clicking on a color well, and then selecting the preferred color. This process can be quite tedious, and OmniGraffle will, for most tasks involving color-change, let you drag a color from the color picker directly onto a shape, the text or a line.

Start by drawing a rectangular shape on your canvas – and place the text This text belongs to this shape inside. The stroke thickness is set to 5 points, and the font is 18 points Helvetica.

You are now ready for some color picker magic.

Hide all the inspectors by using the Inspectors | Hide Inspectors menu command. If you prefer to use the keyboard shortcut, this is ⇧+⌘+I.

If the color picker is not visible— use the Inspector | Color to make it visible (the keyboard shortcut command is ⇧+⌘+C).

You should now have just the color picker and the shape on the canvas visible.

Select the Color palette( ) on the color picker. Then select Crayons in the...