OmniGraffle Pro 5.2rc2

OmniGraffle Pro 5.2rc2 is really useful for you especially when you need a clear understanding of how tasks, activities, and processes are carried out. OmniGraffle can help you produce amazing-looking diagrams that communicate information far better than words - and if you're just looking to make a poster for your Sunday garage sale, it's perfect for that too. Diagrams are basic to the way people think, and they create them all the time without even realizing it. Whatever your profession or interests, chances are you've occasionally sketched out some ideas on a piece of graph paper or the back of a napkin.

OmniGraffle is the tool to help you organize your thoughts visually, document them beautifully, and communicate them to the world. More than just a silly name, OmniGraffle is a powerful, yet easy to use diagramming and drawing tool. OmniGraffle can help you make amazing graphic documents quickly by keeping lines connected to shapes even when they're moved, providing stencils full of common symbols for you to drag and drop, and magically organizing diagrams with just one click. Create flow charts, org charts, network diagrams, family trees, project processes, office layouts - or anything else that can be represented by symbols and lines.

Major Features:

1. Subgraphs: Use subgraphs to expand and collapse segments of your diagram just like you can expand and collapse rows in outline view. Make a single diagram as simplified or as complex as you need.
2. Shared Layers: Share the love between your canvases with shared layers. When you have common elements that you'd like to display on different canvases, shared layers make it easy to keep them updated. Change any object on a shared layer (a logo, a background, a wireframe) and the change instantly shows up on every canvas that shares the layer.
3. Greater Visio Support: Now it's even easier to work with PC using colleagues (until they see the light and switch to a Mac, that is). You can now open Microsoft Visio (VSD) files directly in OmniGraffle, along with Visio stencils (VSS) and Visio templates (VST).
4. Custom Data: A new addition to the notes inspector, you can use the custom data table to keep your own information about objects on the canvas. This data can be used for scripts or just for your own reference.
5. Notes: Notes are a handy way to store arbitrary information about objects in a diagram. An object with a note displays the note in a tag when you rest the pointer over it for a moment; click the note inspector to view and edit the note. You can use rich text in notes, so they can be styled and include links to websites. Notes can be imported from or exported to OmniOutliner, and they also show up in presentation mode.
6. Tables: Now you can convert any shape into a table. Add rows and columns just by dragging handles or using keyboard shortcuts; select individual cells by clicking your table once, then clicking the cell. For the technically inclined: tables have made it much easier to graphically display information from your imported EOModeler, Project Builder, and Interface Builder files.
7. Document Scale: Use OmniGraffle Professional's ruler with automatic dimensioning when you're drawing something to scale, scale being the relationship between the size of the page and the size of the objects being drawn. You can set up a scale such as "1 in = 2 ft" or "100 px = 1 km" and OmniGraffle takes care of the rest — no need to do the math yourself.
8. Shape Combinations: This powerful feature allows you to combine two shapes into one (union), use one shape to cut holes in another shape (subtract), or create an entirely new shape from the area where two shapes overlap (intersect). This is the perfect tool when you're working on creating your latest jigsaw puzzle masterpiece!
9. SVG Export: OmniGraffle Professional supports exporting to the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format which can display OmniGraffle documents beautifully at any size, whether you're viewing them on the screen of a mobile phone or on a large print banner.
10. Multiple Editing Windows: When you need to edit different sections of your OmniGraffle file, like a different canvas in your document or a specific area in your canvas, you can open a separate window to do your work. You can have multiple editing windows on any one document, so you don't have to switch from canvas to canvas or zoom in and out to get your work done. Open as many windows as you want in order to help you work on different tasks while keeping an eye on the big picture.
11. Presentation Mode: Need to share your diagrams with an audience? With the Presentation Mode, you can show off all the great work you've created. Presentation Mode allows you to link multiple canvases together, and run a slide show that displays your documents full screen. Items on your canvases can be turned into clickable links that navigate throughout your OmniGraffle file — you can skip from canvas to canvas, forwards and backwards. Now you've got yet another powerful way to communicate your information visually using OmniGraffle.
12. Favorites: In the Shape toolbar there is a drop down menu that displays the various shapes and styles used in a particular document, so you can select any existing item to begin drawing with the exact same attributes. OmniGraffle Professional adds the ability to configure your "favorite" styles to be stored in the same menu, to be used over and over again. For instance, if you find yourself frequently drawing a rounded rectangle with a reddish fill and a 50% shadow, you can just add this to your favorites.
13. ColorSync: To ensure your professional documents will print exactly as you've designed them, OmniGraffle Professional supports Apple's ColorSync technology to provide in depth proofing. ColorSync is the industry-standard color management technology that ensures color accuracy from capture to print or online display. It delivers powerful control over color matching at every step of the workflow process — ColorSync compensates for any deviations in the image-capturing systems of scanners, the display anomalies of monitors, and the color imaging components of printers and output devices.

Requirements:

• Requires Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard or later