New website for stencils!

[mokolabs]

I'm proud to announce I've just launched Graffletopia, a website that makes it easy to share OmniGraffle stencils.

Stencils are a cool part of OmniGraffle, but the list on the 'Extras' page always seemed a bit buried. Hopefully, by having a separate site for sharing stencils, it will be easier to find and share cool stencils.

http://graffletopia.com

Cheers,
Patrick

[Guntis]

Unfortunately too many stencils have broken links - for example, I open http://graffletopia.com/stencils/29 and click on the Download link to download stencil, but new page opens (http://omnigroup.com/ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/Extras/OmniGraffle/MindMap.dmg) with the error message:

Not Found

The requested URL /ftp/pub/software/MacOSX/Extras/OmniGraffle/MindMap.dmg was not found on this server.

Apache/1.3.33 Server at omnigroup.com:80 Port 80

The same for Apple logo stencils (http://graffletopia.com/stencils/26) and Gardening stencils (http://graffletopia.com/stencils/23), and many more.

And so for almost every stencil I want to download...

[mokolabs]

Thanks for catching that bug, Guntis.

For some reason, links to files or pages on Omnigroup.com must have a www subdomain. When I tested these links earlier, everything seemed to work ok, but I guess it wasn't.

Anyway, it's all fixed now... so feel free to download as much as you want! :)

Best,
Patrick

[epo]

You're not havng a good week, now just gives a Rails application error.

[mokolabs]

Arrrgh... so annoying.

Ruby on Rails is awesome, but hosting a Rails app can be tricky. Anyways, I apologize for the technical difficulties.

The site is back up now.

[johnny0]

Hey, don't forget the rest of my maps... :)

Very bottom of the OG extras page...

[johnny0]

Ah ha... I just discovered that you can add them yourself! Very nice. I'll upload them tomorrow once I get some screenshots.

[johnny0]

Does anyone know how to make an alias that is relative (and that *stays* relative across systems)?

I'd like to include an alias to the OmniGraffle stencil folder on the disk images I am making for my maps. However, I don't want a reference to my hard drive (i.e. keep $HOME or ~ at the beginning so it will point to the user directory of whoever opens it...)

I've tried

> ln -s ~/Library/Application Support/OmniGraffle/Stencils

and

> ln -s $HOME/Library/Application Support/OmniGraffle/Stencils

Both make an alias, but it resolves both $HOME and ~ (i.e. the alias is a full path to MY OG folder even when on a different account or user).

[Joel]

1. Select desired folder in Home Directory
2. Command-L
3. There is no step 3

I've tested it across different machines and user accounts, it should point to ~/Library/Application Support/OmniGraffle/Stencils/ in a dynamic fashion.

[johnny0]

Damn old-school UNIX. :)

[mokolabs]

No worries, johnny0.

I'll be adding lots more stencils over the next week or two -- probably another 20 or so. (To give each stencil the spotlight, I'm adding just one per day.)

[johnny0]

Ahh, yes, dramatic uploading, I like it. :)

Actually, I've finished putting the stencils into disk images -- I'm just working on the background image on the .dmg and I can upload them. Hopefully will finish later this week.

[mokolabs]

Great. Looking forward to adding those!

[johnny0]

happy to say that this is the week of maps over at Graffletopia!

Check out the RSS feed, very handy. (After, of course, you read the Omni Mouth...)

[mokolabs]

It sure is, Johnny.

We're adding four more maps through the rest of the week. Antarctica, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

[Wombat]

The Mindmapping stencil looks interesting. So far, so good: I've got it showing up in the stencil toolbar.

Now, how do I use it? Am I supposed to drag something off the stencil everytime I want to add another thought to the map? This seems very slow.

Also, where do I find the info from Matt Gemmell? It doesn't appear to be on either the Omni or Graffletopia sites.