- OmniGraffle Pro helps you draw beautiful diagrams, family trees, flow charts, org charts, layouts, and (mathematically speaking) any other directed or non-directed graphs. We’ve had people use Graffle to plan plotlines for a story, make an overview of an operating system, show the evolution of computers, and even show how diseases can spread in a closed population.
- OmniGraffle 6.5.3 – Create diagrams, flow charts, and more. May 12, 2016 OmniGraffle Pro helps you draw beautiful diagrams, family trees, flow charts, org charts, layouts, and (mathematically speaking) any other directed or non-directed graphs.
OmniGraffle is packed with a ton of goodies, and received a total redesign for OS X Yosemite (v10.10). Since it’s initial release, OmniGraffle 6 has evolved into the precision drawing tool that designers around the world turn to for everything from creating simple flowcharts to prototyping apps—and their interactions—for Mac, iOS, and the web.
OmniGraffle Pro 6.5.1 MAC OS X 9463762: Contact us: contact@dam ag.net. Pros: OmniGraffle Pro is a diagram making software that enables you to create different types of diagrams, graphs or model. Possibilities for diagram making are endless. There are many graph needed for our company's clients' websites, which I made through OmniGraffle Pro. The layouts are almost limitless with lots of different graphs, diagrams.
OmniGraffle has been optimized for OS X Yosemite, and the user interface has gone through a massive transformation to give OmniGraffle a nice, clean appearance.
The biggest improvement, however, can be found in the Inspectors. Each Inspector palette has been painstakingly redesigned to optimize space and function. More importantly, you can now detach the Inspectors from the main app window (yes, we’ve listened!). For designers used to running on multiple displays, this is a huge boon as you’ll be able to keep the Inspectors on one screen while going into Full Screen mode on your big spiffy external display. (Go on, you know you want to.)
If you have OmniGraffle Pro, you’ll find that we’ve added Layer blending modes to the Fill Inspector. Layer blending gives you the flexibility to apply filters to a layer and then blend colors with other layers in the stack.
And finally, there’s a new place in Omni’s family: Stenciltown. Stenciltown is where you can safely find and download new stencils for OmniGraffle. Stencils, for Mac and iOS versions of OmniGraffle.
How This Documentation is Organized
This wonderful manual that you have before you (either in OmniGraffle itself, online, or in iBooks on your Mac or iOS device—or both) has been assembled in such a way that you’re provided with a complete tour of OmniGraffle.
You’ll start out with an overview of OmniGraffle’s interface. Don’t skip over this chapter, as you’ll find many nuggets of information and fine details about OmniGraffle that you might otherwise miss. And, if you do decide to skip this chapter and later find yourself wondering, “Hey, what’s that doohickey do?”, you can always come back here to discover what it’s all about.
To help guide you through the documentation and better learn all the things you need to know about OmniGraffle, here’s a list of all of the chapters in this book:
- Chapter 1, Getting to Know OmniGraffle
- The first chapter dives right in and gives you a top-down overview of OmniGraffle’s user interface. You’ll learn about the Resource Browser, Toolbar, Sidebar, the Inspectors and, of course, the Canvas. Nothing too deep; just the basics to get you rolling.
- Chapter 2, Defining and Using the Canvas
- The Canvas is where most of the work in OmniGraffle takes place. You start out with a blank canvas—a Template—upon which you draw, add text and images, fill shapes with color, and even create actions between objects on different canvases and layers. It’s a magical place. This chapter starts out with an overview of OmniGraffle’s Resource Browser, which is how you access other projects and templates quickly, before moving on to highlight all of the canvas’s features. You’ll learn how to add and manage guidelines, how to work with multiple canvases and layers, and more.
- Chapter 3, The Toolbar and Using the Tools
- The Toolbar contains all of the drawing tools you’ll need, and this chapter provides you with a quick overview of what each of them do.
- Chapter 4, Using the Inspectors
- Once you’ve learned about the Tools, you can use the Inspectors to examine the things you draw and modify their properties. Chapter 4 also examines the Stencils built into OmniGraffle and introduces you to Stenciltown.
- Chapter 5, Drawing Basics
- Here you’ll learn some of the basic ways to draw and create objects on the canvas. You will learn how to create, select, resize, and move shapes, how to group and ungroup objects, how to connect objects with lines—including how to adjust the connecting lines and endpoints—and how to add color to your objects using the Fill inspector.
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If you have OmniGraffle Pro, you’ll also learn how to create Tables and Subgraphs from basic objects on the canvas.
If you have OmniGraffle Pro, you’ll also learn how to create Tables and Subgraphs from basic objects on the canvas.
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This brief chapter walks you through the process of adding your license info in OmniGraffle, shows you how to remove a license, and even tells you where we “hide” the license on your Mac just in case you ever need to send that to us or transfer it to that brand new Mac you’ve purchased.
Using This Book
One of the beauties of having OmniGraffle’s documentation available in electronic form is that it’s always available whenever you need it. We have built the documentation right into the Help menu. We have put all of the documentation on our website where it can be searched and bookmarked. And we’re continuing the ongoing trend of creating EPUB versions of the docs and making them freely available on the iBooks Store.
What’s New in OmniGraffle
OmniGraffle 6 has new and re-designed features to make graffling even easier. If you’ve been a long-time OmniGraffle user, it won’t take long before you notice some changes.
Some additional changes we’ve made include (but certainly aren’t limited to):
- Easily find your latest projects, access stencils, templates, and any styles you may have saved with the Resource Browser.
- OmniGraffle now runs in a Sandboxed environment, which means your resources, such as Templates and Stencils, can now be fully managed from within the app.
- Improved and powerful controls have been added to edit and mask images placed directly on the canvas.
- New Fill and Stroke styles, such as Freehand, Stipple, and Marker.
- Combined shapes can now be uncombined into their starting component shapes.
- A new and powerful Font Inspector.
- Zoom levels have been increased to 6400 percent!
- The color and position of manual Guides can now be set by hand, and dragged from one canvas to another.
- View your Stencils using the new List Mode in the refined Stencils Library.
- Line labels can be set to follow the path of a line, including Bézier curves.
- Use the new Fill Blend options in the Fill inspector to blend color-filled objects on the Canvas. (Pro)
- New controls have been added to specify which edge or center of an object is reflected in the Geometry Inspector, along with the ability to set the X and Y coordinates of a selected vertex point. (Pro)
- The Notes and Data Inspector now lets you assign unique naming to individual objects. (Pro)
- You can now set the display zoom level of 100 percent to reflect one Apple point, one screen pixel, or one PostScript point for work on Retina displays and true WYSIWYG work. (Pro)
- Export OmniGraffle layers to Photoshop® layers. (Pro)
- Import and export Visio® files. (Pro)
These new features, combined with file synchronization with OmniPresence and Omni Sync Server, make this an incredible update worthy of a whole number.
What’s Extra in Pro?
OmniGraffle 6 Pro, available via In-App Purchase includes a lot of advanced features that might not be needed by everyone. OmniGraffle 6 Pro features include:
- AppleScript support
- Object fill blending
- Distortion effects
- Geometry left-center-right
- Vertex Point Geometry
- Note tooltip preferences
- Canvas zoom options
- Import Xcode projects
- Share layers between canvases
- Combine shapes
- Add Notes and custom data
- Create tables
- Multiple editing windows
- Subgraph support
- Visio® Support
- Presentation Mode
- Export layered OmniGraffle files as layered Adobe® Photoshop® files (.psd)
Throughout this guide, we’ll call attention to the features exclusive to OmniGraffle 6 Pro in a little box like this one. All of the other features are available in both the Standard and the Pro editions of OmniGraffle.
Tell Us What You Think
We’re constantly working on updates for our documentation. Whether it’s CSS work, correcting the occasional typo (yeah, they do sometimes slip through), or adding details or clarification for a specific feature based on something we’ve heard from a customer, we’re always trying to make our documentation better and more useful for you.
If you have any specific comments you’d like to send us about the documentation, please do. You can drop us an email message via our Support queue, or you can ping us on Twitter; we’re @OmniWranglers.
Finally, we’d like to thank you for taking the time to read the docs.
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Developer(s) | The Omni Group |
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Initial release | May 7, 2001; 19 years ago[1] |
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Operating system | macOS, iOS |
Type | Charting software |
License | Proprietary |
Website | www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/ |
OmniGraffle is a diagramming and digital illustration application for macOS and iOS[4] created by The Omni Group.
Uses[edit]
OmniGraffle is used to create graphics and visuals. The application features several design tools, along with a drag-and-dropWYSIWYG interface and a notes function that annotate and create specification documentation for prototypes and mockups.
While OmniGraffle can produce graphics and visuals, it is often used as a tool to create content maps, screen flows, and wire frames. Visuals are often referred to as 'graffles.'[5]
Although OmniGraffle is an industry tool, it lacks interactivity capabilities and is not easily used for team collaboration due to its limitations as a desktop and tablet application.[citation needed]
Application resources and tools[edit]
OmniGraffle design tools include canvases, templates, stencils, vector drawing, and grid guides. Other features include auto layout and document management.
Canvases[edit]
Canvases are spaces where users can create shapes. Attributes to creating a canvas include canvas name, sizing options, grid and dimension selections, and diagram layout. Users may create and also share canvases and layers, with automatic updates available. This gives users the option to create layers once, toggle layers to appear on desired canvases, and update automatically if changes occur.
Templates[edit]
Templates are OmniGraffle application resources. Template documents can be manipulated by users for their purposes. Some sample templates are preloaded and available for users. Users may also create, edit, and save templates for creating consistent graffles.[6]
Stencils[edit]
Stencils are OmniGraffle application resources. Stencils are clip art files that serve as elements, such as icons or buttons, for OmniGraffle documents. A wide variety of sample stencils are pre-loaded and available for immediate use. Users can also create, share, download, and preview stencils online as well through OmniGraffle's Stenciltown[7] or other stencil libraries, such as Graffletopia.[8]
Vector drawing[edit]
Because OmniGraffle visuals are vector-based, visuals are composed of mathematical representations of pixels. Rather than creating free-hand drawn work, users utilize vectors to create these visuals. To minimize user-end visual creation, vector drawing also allows for all graphic images to be recreated.[9]
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Smart guides[edit]
Smart Guides is a tool that can be turned on or off. While moving objects around the canvas, Smart Guides provides users with highlighted grid lines to easily align objects on the canvas. It also provides additional ease for users with a dynamic snap-to-grid functionality for accurately snapping objects into alignment around the canvas.[10]
Extra features[edit]
Other design features in the latest versions of OmniGraffle include artistic fill and stroke styles, text and shape scalability, path-following text, shape combinations, diagram styling, auto layout features for treemapping, and documentation management.
Import and export[edit]
OmniGraffle supports filesharing and Visio support in its Pro distribution. All users can export their graffles to JPEG, BMP, EPS, GIF, HTML Images, SVG, Template, Stencil, PNG, OO3, TIFF, and PDF [5]. Additionally, OmniGraffle Pro users can import dot/graphviz, Visio, SVG, PDF, Photoshop[11] with layers, and Xcode.
Competition[edit]
In many respects, OmniGraffle is similar to Microsoft Visio. The Pro version of OmniGraffle can both import and export Visio files created using Visio's XML export function. However, Omnigraffle doesn't provide CAD integration like Visio, since it lacks some features such as DWG or DXF (AutoDesk file formats), import/export functions, among others. Also it is important to notice that layers cannot be shared among some versions of Visio and OmniGraffle.[5]
Diagrams such as concept maps or mind maps, flowcharts and wire frames can also be drawn with other applications: see Comparison of vector graphics editors.
References[edit]
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- ^'Happy birthday, OmniGraffle!'. The Omni Group.
- ^'OmniGraffle Release Notes'. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
- ^'OmniGraffle Release Notes'. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
- ^'OmniGraffle 3.0 Brings the Power of Its macOS Counterpart to iOS'. MacStories. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
- ^ abc'OmniGraffle - diagramming and graphic design for Mac, iPhone, and iPad - The Omni Group'. omnigroup.com.
- ^'A Beginner's Guide to Wireframing in Omnigraffle'. Web Design Tuts+.
- ^'Stenciltown'. omnigroup.com.
- ^'Awesome OmniGraffle stencils - Graffletopia'. graffletopia.com.
- ^'OmniGraffle - diagramming and graphic design for Mac, iPhone, and iPad - The Omni Group'. omnigroup.com.
- ^'Be smart and use Smart Guides - Veerle's blog'. duoh.com.
- ^'OmniGraffle and Photoshop: One Great Taste and One Acceptable Taste that Taste Great Together'. omnigroup.com.
External links[edit]
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