OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials电子书

OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials

Table of Contents

OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Getting Started with OmniGraffle

What OmniGraffle is—and what it is not

What's in a name?

Setting up OmniGraffle before you start

The OmniGraffle workspace

The canvas

The toolbar

The inspector bar

The drawing area

The style tray

The inspector palettes

Selector and keyboard shortcuts

The stencils

Your first diagram

Step 1: Start with a blank canvas

Step 2: Add the first task

Step 3: Add task—writing article

Step 4: Connecting shapes

Step 5: Adding another workflow step: Done editing

Step 6: Moving a shape

Step 7: Adding the editor check

Step 8: Workflow step—publish on the front page

Step 9: Workflow step—publish on the front page

Step 10: Publishing!

Step 11: The icing on the cake—making your diagram spring into color

The Canvas Style Tray

More on moving shapes around the canvas

Saving diagrams

Exporting diagrams

Handy tips regarding inspectors

Tips and pitfalls—tips on how to make great visual diagrams

Tip 1: Do some planning before you start

Tip 2: Colorize gently

Tip 3: Use few fonts

Tip 4: Consider your output media

Tip 5: Symmetry is better than asymmetry

Tip 6: Have one, and only one, focus point

Tip 7: Apply the Golden Ratio to stand alone diagrams

Tip 8: Use titles, figure captions, and legends

Tip 9: Be liberal with white space

Tip 10: Be consistent

Summary

2. Stencils

Defining a stencil

The stencil library

Overview of the Stencils palette

Built-in stencils

Common stencils

Maps stencils

Organization charts stencils

Science stencils

Software stencils

Space planning stencils

Your first stencil-based diagram

A helping guide

The incoming cash flow

Adding expense buckets

External stencils

Omni Group downloads

Graffletopia

Commercial stencil sources

Importing MS Visio stencils and templates

Searching and importing stencils from Graffletopia

The manual method of importing any stencils

The automatic method of importing stencils from Graffletopia

Amending your income flow diagram

The details of the Stencils palette

Overview of the palette sections

The Stencil Library Controls

The Stencil View Mode buttons

The Stencil Action button

The Stencil Search function

The Stencil Folders pane

The Stencil Library

The Recent Stencils section

The Favorite Stencil section

The selected shapes Style Tray

Creating your own stencil

Creating stencils with cool graphics

The vector side of things

The legal side of using third party graphic files

Creating a stencil with fancy graphics

Using svg Detective to convert the SVG file

Using InkScape to convert the SVG file

Exporting your stencil

Importing Microsoft Visio Templates

Organizing stencils

Summary

3. Shapes, Building Blocks for Diagrams

Differences from other software

Compound shapes

Shape types

Adding a text caption to a shape

Drawing a copy of an existing shape

Favorite shapes and styles

Singular shapes lines

The Line Style inspector

Midpoints on lines

Line types

Bézier lines in detail

Line endings—tails and (arrow) heads

Reversing a line

Line Hops

Favorite line styles

Line labels revisited

Text shapes

Favorite text styles

Shape style properties

Shape stroke inspector and the color of a stroke

Fill color and fill type

Shadow type, color, and size

Text type (font), color, and size

Placing images inside shapes

Ordering shapes

Grouping shapes

Creating a group of shapes

Ungrouping a group of shapes

Resizing shape groups

Adjusting shapes with the Geometry property inspector

Line Label controls

The Rulers and Inspector Bar

The Shape Inspector Bar

The Text Inspector Bar

The Canvas rulers

Connecting shapes

Summary

4. More Tools for Editing Diagrams

The Expanded Canvas Toolbar

The floating Canvas Tool palette

Customizing the Canvas Toolbar

The Canvas Toolbar preferences

Keyboard shortcuts for the Canvas Toolbar

Using the Pen Tool to create your own shapes

Fast diagramming using the Diagramming Tool

Diagramming Tool Modifier keys

Style replication using the Style Brush Tool

Replicating shapes using the Rubber Stamp Tool

Editing magnets using the Magnet Tool

Zooming the Canvas

Moving around the canvas

Using the Action Browse Tool and the Action Property Inspector

The Action Property inspector

The Jumps Elsewhere action in detail

Using Automatic layout

Mouseless Editing

Keyboard shortcuts and OmniGraffle

Your brain may thank you for using keyboard shortcuts

Using the Outline and List functions to create diagrams

The Outline function

The List function

Diagram Styles

Diagram Templates

Summary

5. More on Editing Diagrams

Creating your own shapes the easy way

The Subtract Shapes menu command

The Union Shapes menu command

The Intersect Shapes menu command

The Make Points Editable menu command

The Big Wedge Experiment

Subgraphs

Tables

Using OmniGraffle as a presentation tool

Creating a presentation

Starting, navigating, and stopping your presentation

Advanced presentation mode

Actions and presentation mode

Changing the color and behavior of the presentation highlight

The ColorSync support

Summary

6. Making your Diagram Look Good

Manually adjusting diagram elements

Resizing shapes

Size to Fit Image

Make Natural Size

Making shapes the same size

Gridlines

Enabling gridlines

Adjusting gridlines

Aligning shapes to the document grid

Aligning shapes to each other

Easy shape selection

What OmniGraffle defines as similar shapes

Selecting connected shapes

Easy re-styling of shapes

Color picker tricks

The color picker in detail

The Color Wheel

The Color Sliders

The Color Palettes

The Image Palettes

The Crayons Palette

The Patterns Palette

Summary

7. Property Inspectors

The Grid Property inspector revisited

The Canvas Size Property inspector

More on scaling your diagram

The Document Property inspector

More on file format options

The Data Property inspector

The Note Property inspector

Summary

8. Canvases and Canvas Layers

Canvases

Naming your canvases

Adding, deleting, and rearranging canvases

Canvas layers

A visual explanation of canvas layers

Working with layers

Adding a new layer

Duplicating and copying a layer

Rearranging and moving a layer

How to merge two layers

Deleting a layer

Layer settings

Visibility

Printing

Locking a layer

Working with shapes on layers

Shared layers

When to use layers

Summary

9. OmniGraffle workspaces

Your workspace

Summary

Index