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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 Document Property inspector


The Document Property inspector controls how your document should be saved and which margins your page should have.

The File Format options drop-down menu controls how OmniGraffle is saving your document. The default setting is Automatic—which will select between the file package format and the flat file format.

The Compress on disk checkbox makes OmniGraffle compress your OmniGraffle document. This can be quite a space saver if your diagram has a lot of shapes.

For normal operations you should never enable this option.

Your Macintosh operating system has a feature called Quick Look built right into its core functionality. With Quick Look you do not need to open a particular document just to take a look at the content.

This functionality is very apparent in Apple Mail where you can preview attachments without opening the attachments software tool.

For OmniGraffle to support this handy feature, the program must save some extra information...