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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

The Note Property inspector


The Note Property inspector is only available in the OmniGraffle Professional version. If you do not have this version installed, you can skip this section.

Using this inspector you can add any kind of information to a shape. You can both enter free form information in a note field, or you can add structured information in a data table.

The note field can contain rich text. This means that you are not limited to using one predefined font. You can use various fonts, sizes, colors, and so on. Anything you can do with text inside OmniGraffle—you can also do with this field.

The data table is organized around the concept of Key/Value pairs. The Data Key is akin to a label in a data entry form, and the Data Value is the information you enter into the corresponding field in the data entry form.

There are many uses for associating data with shapes. The most obvious usage is to keep information on components in an infrastructure diagram. If you want to create a diagram...

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