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OmniGraffle - 2.0b

diagrams, family trees, flow charts, organizational charts, layouts

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Selected Version:	2.0b
Release Date:	2002-01-18
License:	Beta
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Downloads (all versions):	211,931
Price:	$69.95

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Product Description:

OmniGraffle helps you draw beautiful diagrams, family trees, flow charts, org charts, layouts, and other directed or non-directed graphs. If you want to organize anything graphically using boxes and lines, OmniGraffle is your tool.

What's new in this version:

Applescript Support
URLs linked to graphics
- Any graphic can have a URL associated with it.
- There are 3 ways to add a URL to a graphic
  - Drag a non-image file from the workspace and drop it on the graphic
  - Drag a URL from OmniWeb and drop it on the graphic
  - Edit the URL on the Link Info pane
  - There are 3 ways to navigate using links
    - There is a new Browse tool. In browse mode, any graphic with a link will highlight when the cursor is over it. Clicking on the graphic will open the link.
    - Choose Format->Show Links. A link symbol will appear next to each graphic that has a link. Clicking on the link symbol will open the link.
    - On the Link Info Pane, there is a "Follow Link" button. This will also open the link.
- When importing PBProject and Framework files, it set the links to the appropriate files so you can browse projects easily this way - clicking on the boxes will open the header.
- Added a new export format: HTML Image Map. It creates a <map> with <area> tags for all graphics with links. With this addition Graffle actually works really well as an image map creator by sticking a locked image on a lower layer and then drawing boxes on it and setting links on the boxes.
Layers
OmniOutliner import prefrences
- user can create any number of outline styles
- each style has a general layout preference and a list of prototype graphics, one graphic for each topic level.
- prototype graphics can be modified using the info panes
More Tools
- Zoom Tool
- Polygon tool
- Link Browser tool
- Rubber Stamp Tool
  - The rubber stamp tool is useful for repeatedly placing the same graphic. If there is a graphic on the pasteboard, then each click with the rubber stamp tool will place a new copy of that graphic (it will beep if there is no graphic on the pasteboard).
  - Option-clicking with the rubber stamp tool will copy whatever graphic is clicked on to the pasteboard.
- Tools Preferences for turning tools on and off
Shape Enhancements
- Graded fills
- Tiled Images
- Improved autosizing/clipping control
- Text can have inline images.
  - To add an image to text, you first have to be editing the text. Then it will accept drag/drop of images. This feature was added to try out a service for converting text to PDF mathematical symbols.
- Option to turn off connections for graphics
Line Endings Enhancements
- Underlying support for custom line endings
- Added sliders for setting line ending size
Export panel additions
- Export panel remembers the last export type.
- Export panel lets you choose whether to export the graphics, the selection, a rectangular region, or the entire canvas.
- Export panel also lets you set the compression, resolution, and background transparency.
- Export to HTML Image Map
Grid Enhancements
- Added a major grid that is slightly darker than the minor grid.
- Added inspector controls for setting the major grid color, spacing and visibilty.
- Made the grid visible by default.
- Made grid semi-transparent by default.
- Changed the templates to have the grid visible.
- Changed the A4 and B5 templates to have a 0.5 cm grid (US Legal and Letter have 1/8 inch grid).
- Align center to grid is now persistent
Auto-layout improvements
- 10x speed improvement for force-directed layout (not including display time)
- Added optional magnetic alignment fields
  - lines will tend to align themselves in the direction of the field
  - linear fields are can be at any angle
  - radial fields radiate outwards from a point that can be user set
Better palette management
- Added a preference for "Remember Open Palettes". This will be on by default. It re-opens all of the palettes that were open when the application quit.
- Added a palettes pull down menu to the Palette Viewer's toolbar.
- When a new palette is saved, both the Tool->Palettes menu and the toolbar pull down menu are updated.
- The default location for new palettes is in ~/Library/Application Support/OmniGraffle/Palettes, and we store the last palette save path in user defaults.
- Subdirectories of .../Application Support/OminGraffle/Palettes are treated as categories for the palettes contained in them and will have appropriate submenus on palette menus.
Miscellaneous features
- Arbitrary zoom values now show up on the zoom pop-up (instead of blank).
- When a document is opened, it will scroll to the same area that was visible when the document was last saved.
- Added a pop-up to the info toolbar configuration
- CVS - If a .graffle file is a file wrapper and it has a CVS directory in it, then we preserve the CVS data.
- Added a menu item for checking for newer versions
- Hooked up a "Send Feedback..." menu item.
- Added UML class graphic and UML inheritance arrowhead
- Added a color well to the font panel. Now you can set the text color for multiple graphics without having to select text individually and drag and drop the color from the color panel.
Bug Fixes and minor tweaks
- Bitmap and pict images that are dragged and dropped into OmniGraffle are no longer converted to TIFF when the file is saved. They are saved with their original data.
- Only saves images that are still being used.
- Groups were not computing their bounds correctly if they were rotated.
- It was crashing if lines that were connected to themselves got grouped.
- Graphics with overflowing text had the wrong drawing bounds.
- Size To Fit now sizes to fit the current number of pages instead of a 1x1 canvas.
- Fixed a bug with scaled documents not printing correctly.
- Page breaks no longer draw outside the bounds of the canvas.
- Plugged some minor memory leaks
- Made Info panel float
- The grid size field was not localized
- Hide/Show Magnets was not redisplaying the view.
- The grid was being drawn on top of the page breaks and in the same color. Now we default to a darker page break color and always draw it after the grid, even if the grid is on top of the graphics.
- Tripple-clicking on a graphic no longer ends editing... the 3rd click is passed on to the text editor.
- Transparency is working for line labels.
- Click-shift-drag had bizarre behavior
- Printed images were getting clipped by a half pixel
- PDF images were scaling like bitmaps
- Holding shift while creating lines should constrain the current segment to 45 degree increments.
- Arrow keys should apply to the selected line or polygon knob
- Should be able to delete the last point in a line
- Clean up the palette code so that there are never duplicates
- Shadows now have a default transparency of 50%, and they respond to changes in the transparency.
- Fixed a problem with replacing a flat file with a file wrapper. This was broken with the last release of OSX.
- Can undo setting page break and canvas colors.
- Documents from templates and saved documents were not being centered correctly when first opened
- Made the palette viewer a floating window.
- Clicking on the Info, Palette, and Selections buttons will now hide there respective windows if they are already open.
- "Show Info" changes to "Hide Info" if the panel is visible.
- "Show Selection" changes to "Hide Selection" if the panel is visible.
- Changed the initial license warning to say 20 objects instead of 10 objects.
- Fixed a bug with DOT importing where it was trying to process "node" as a keyword, instead of just a string.
- DOT import was choking on nested {}'s
- Added support for the full DOT color table
- Fixed a crasher related to grouping lines that point to the endpoints of other lines.
- Shadows were being clipped by a pixel on PDF export.
- Fixed the problem with graphics not scrolling unless the mouse is moving.
- Fixed the problem with nudged graphics getting pushed out of view.
- Info panes do a better job of hide/show.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

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Needed a few quick diagrams - Version: 5.2, 9/13/2009 09:31PM PST

LargeCup

I recently purchased Adobe CS4 and have slowly been working through exercises to learn Photoshop and InDesign. Then this past week I needed a few simple diagrams. I thought it would be a good way to learn Illustrator.

After several hours of learning about and getting frustrated with Illustrator, I downloaded OmniGraffle and produced four perfect charts and diagrams in an hour with color shading and complexity I'd have had to spend a long time to learn in Illustrator.

So much about OmniGraffle is intuitive. What little was not intuitive to me, I could find quickly in the user's guide. In fact, I found some things that I wasn't thinking about, enhancing the final products. And those things that at first were not intuitive, became so quite easily.

I couldn't ask for more.

You might want to avoid the beta for now... - Version: 4.2 beta 2, 3/19/2007 10:32PM PST

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i_gaucho

I just started using the beta on my MBP running 10.4.9 and it all of sudden it caused a kernel panic while I was working for a while. Luckily I didn't lose anything and no damage was done. I just downgraded to the stable release.

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You might want to avoid the beta for now...

- Multipurpose - - Version: 4.1.2, 8/2/2006 11:20PM PST

(6 of 6 users found this comment useful)

ghostlexx

A fabulous tool, that can be used in many different ways..
..Drag a folder in and it'll generate a hierarchical plan, clickable maps, etc.

Has anyone else noticed that the OmniPlan mini manual was made with OmniGraffle ??

There you go - defininitely a more potent tool than it first appears !!