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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

Layer settings


There are three settings or states a layer can have. These settings are for visibility, if the layer is to be printed, and if the layer is locked.

Each of these three settings has its own symbol in the Canvases Sidebar. As you can see in the previous screenshot, you have an eye, a printer and a padlock icons, which corresponds to the respective settings.

You can easily toggle these settings on or off by moving your mouse over a layer and clicking on any of the icons. States that are enabled will be easily seen even if the mouse arrow is not currently present in the Canvases Sidebar. As you can see, the Triangle layer has its visibility turned off, as there is a slash through the eye-icon.

You can of course use the right-click context menu, the Action button menu and the Edit | Layers | Layers Settings menu commands to change the layer settings.

Visibility

You can use the visibility setting to hide or show a layer. This is handy if you have layers that portray different messages...

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