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OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials

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Product type Book
Published in Oct 2010
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849690768
Pages 380 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

OmniGraffle 5 Diagramming Essentials
Credits
About the Author
1. Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
2. Preface
1. Getting Started with OmniGraffle 2. Stencils 3. Shapes, Building Blocks for Diagrams 4. More Tools for Editing Diagrams 5. More on Editing Diagrams 6. Making your Diagram Look Good 7. Property Inspectors 8. Canvases and Canvas Layers 9. OmniGraffle workspaces Index

Easy shape selection


When diagrams become complex and you want to change the appearance of many of the same objects, you can either hold down the shift key on your keyboard and select the shapes you need to change, or you can use the built-in selection functions in OmniGraffle.

There are three built in methods of selecting shapes:

  1. The Edit | Select | Similar Objects menu command.

  2. The context sensitive menu when right-clicking on selected shapes (Select | Similar Objects).

  3. Using the Canvas: Selection inspector.

If shapes are connected to each other, it's also possible to select connected shapes from the application menu or the context sensitive menu. You will deal with connected shapes later.

What OmniGraffle defines as similar shapes

Similar shapes are shapes that have exactly the same styling, not the form, type or size of the shapes. The styling can be; the filling color or blend of the shape, the stroke thickness, the corner radius, the stroke color, the shadow, if the shape is filled with...

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