Inspector You use an inspector to define the styles and properties of an object, define the canvas area and units of measurement, and set document properties for saving and printing your OmniGraffle projects. You can change the default colors of Ruler and Smart Guides by choosing OmniGraffle ▸ Preferences ▸ Appearance. Smart Guides, which are light blue by default, appear when you are aligning objects on the canvas.Ruler Guides, which are pink by default, are guides that you drag out from one of the rulers and position on the canvas.Guides There are two types of guides that you’ll see in OmniGraffle: An object group, when selected, can be styled and moved on the canvas as a single unit the styles you apply using the Object inspectors are assigned to each object in the group. Group A group consists of two or more objects that are bound to each other. However, documents tend to be associated with wordy things, not designy things, so throughout the documentation, you’ll see us reference these as OmniGraffle Projects. Document/Project When you create a new file in OmniGraffle, the basic type of file you can create is a document. An OmniGraffle project always contains at least one canvas and one layer. Canvas The canvas is the big white area in the center of OmniGraffle’s interface where you draw and create things.

Bounding boxes have eight handles (one at each corner and centerpoint of the box), which you can click and drag to resize an object. Bounding Box The rectangular area that defines the space an object occupies on the canvas is known as the bounding box. Artboard An artboard is a special type of layer whose objects define an export area, or act as a container, for objects on standard or shared layers higher up in the layer stack.

To better help you understand the terms and terminology used when describing the interface or how to work in OmniGraffle, we’re providing this brief lingua franca. Every piece of software you use has a core set of terminology, and like those apps, OmniGraffle has a common nomenclature.

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