Book Description
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.
The only book to teach you everything about the best diagramming software for the Macintosh
What you will learn from this book :
- Get to grips with the basics and increase your OmniGraffle knowledge to create all the diagrams you will ever need.
- Use tips and tricks to create some great visuals that stand out from the crowd
- Learn everything about shapes: how to make your own and how to style shapes
- Create diagrams based on shapes found in the built-in stencil library, create your own stencils, and import templates from Microsoft Visio
- Communicate your information in an appealing manner by using OmniGraffle as a presentation tool
- Use exciting functions like Mouseless Editing, Automatic Layout, and Outline to create your diagrams incredibly fast
- Explore all the property inspectors that will help you in preparing the perfect diagram that you always dreamed of!
- Improve your productivity with a bunch of time-saving keyboard shortcuts
- Set up different workspace configurations depending on the task at hand to save time and effort
Approach
This is a very visual book with more than 750 illustrations and screenshots, never leaving any intermediate steps out from the tutorials. It contains precise tutorials that explain the various tools, how to use them, and the visual results. The examples used in the book are an excellent starting point for your own diagrams, both as ideas and as true diagrams – all the diagrams in the book can be downloaded for your own use.
Who this book is written for
This book is written for both beginners and seasoned users of OmniGraffle. If you are new to the software, then this book will teach you everything you need to know to make stunning diagrams. For seasoned OmniGraffle users, this book contains a lot of tricks and techniques that will save their work and time.
Book Details
- Paperback: 380 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (October, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1849690766
- ISBN-13: 978-1849690768
- File Size: 28.2 MiB
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