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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

Your workspace


An organized work place is a good thing for both your creativity and your efficiency. The same goes for OmniGraffle. If you set up OmniGraffle the way you feel most comfortable, OmniGraffle won't be in your way.

The most common way of dealing with the program is to have the Canvas on the left side of your screen and then the palettes on your right, with the stencils on top, and the style palette below.

The problem with this way of setting up your workspace is that not only do you constantly need to expand and contract your style palette, but also that the two palettes fight each other for the same screen real estate. Even if you know the various shortcuts for accessing the various styles and stencils it is messy.

Perhaps a better way is to put the style palette to the left of the canvas, and leave the stencils on the right. This way you can expose all the styles, all the time, and have room for a lot of stencils on the screen at the same time.

However, you will loose space...