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Forum: OmniGraffle General 2009-11-06, 07:38 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 6,090
Posted By Leon Starr
Okay, I've got the occasional new feature...

Okay, I've got the occasional new feature request, so that's where they'll go from now on. Thanks.
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2009-11-06, 02:12 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 6,090
Posted By Leon Starr
Me too

I put a docID and version in each of my technical notes and it would be nice if I could just insert variables for these, especially since they are right there in the document inspector.

Often...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2009-11-05, 09:52 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,468
Posted By Leon Starr
Right, but here's the problem with that...

... unless I'm missing something. Let's say you create a "Note" and use that as the name. (in the "click to add note" area). Now I get my hover in the stencil panel, good.

BUT, now let's say I...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2009-11-05, 09:27 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 5,468
Posted By Leon Starr
Naming stencil items - WHY can't we?

It's a simple idea and I don't understand WHY this feature hasn't been added by now in the most amazing graphic drawing application ever, my favorite, OmniGraffle.

As best I can guess, some key...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2009-10-08, 09:15 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 9,257
Posted By Leon Starr
Thanks for the quick response! I should have...

Thanks for the quick response! I should have added that my group consists of two items equally sized. And the one I wanted to edit was BEHIND. So the canvas click inside, select method doesn't...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2009-10-08, 08:25 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 9,257
Posted By Leon Starr
Select child item from list view?

I've got two items grouped and I want to do an operation on the one in the background. I see the group in the list view and my inclination is to double click it so that the child items appear so I...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2009-05-06, 02:11 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 4,659
Posted By Leon Starr
OmniGraffle just BLEW my mind

(here's a copy of an e-mail I just sent to a couple of colleagues - it says it all)
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So I've got this long text field just sitting there in the middle of the canvas:

[ formal | fun | rowdy |...
Forum: OmniGraffle Extras 2009-04-08, 02:35 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 11,657
Posted By Leon Starr
Freezing the modification date

I like to put the modification date in my documents, but I don't always want the variable to update. If I open a document just to look at it, something minor happens and then the modification date...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2009-04-08, 12:21 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 10,864
Posted By Leon Starr
Good idea!

Yeah, I should have thought of that! Thanks.

- Leon
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2009-04-06, 06:29 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 10,864
Posted By Leon Starr
Progress on this?

I'm trying to do the same thing - set guides once and then have them appear in the same position on all canvases so that I can keep certain objects in the same relative locations. Perhaps there is...
Forum: OmniOutliner 3 for Mac 2009-03-25, 04:08 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 14,732
Posted By Leon Starr
Problem solved

My apologies - I was looking at the wrong preference all this time!

I was looking at "When creating new row - create new empty row" which was checked and I figured that was that. LOOKING MORE...
Forum: OmniOutliner 3 for Mac 2009-03-25, 02:40 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 14,732
Posted By Leon Starr
Nope

That is definitely not the problem (and the first thing I checked).
Forum: OmniOutliner 3 for Mac 2009-03-25, 09:24 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 14,732
Posted By Leon Starr
Add new row without pushing down column data?

So I've got a text column and three checkbox columns. I enter some text and the click the appropriate checkboxes (in the same row). Now I hit <enter> to create a new row underneath. A new row is...
Forum: OmniOutliner 3 for Mac 2009-03-25, 09:03 AM
Replies: 0
Views: 9,353
Posted By Leon Starr
Align individual column titles?

Okay, so after 20 minutes I finally figured out how to center align all my column titles (first time I've used columns in outliner!).

But I really just want to center align the titles of my...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2008-07-15, 09:19 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 16,051
Posted By Leon Starr
Yeah, forgot to check that one. I knew there had...

Yeah, forgot to check that one. I knew there had to be something easy. Thanks.
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2008-07-14, 07:13 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 16,051
Posted By Leon Starr
Question about saving/creating templates

I have an existing document that I would like to save as a template. Can you do that? Hopefully!

Or do you have to create a new template and then copy everything into it?

Or can you just do...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2008-07-02, 12:11 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 10,437
Posted By Leon Starr
Which I think is also the default for shifting...

Which I think is also the default for shifting desktop spaces in Leopard. That's why I didn't find it!
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2008-07-01, 08:08 PM
Replies: 7
Views: 5,637
Posted By Leon Starr
Yes, I've had that one on the toolbar and it is...

Yes, I've had that one on the toolbar and it is nice. More toolbar choices would be better, however, like shape alignment and shape operations (union, intersect, subtract).

And I recently...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2008-07-01, 05:31 PM
Replies: 2
Views: 10,437
Posted By Leon Starr
Start / end of line key nav inside text object ?

I see that mouseless editing (a good thing) seems to remove the capability to hop quickly to the beginning or end of a line inside of a text object. Normally that's not a big deal, but I've got some...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2008-07-01, 11:47 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 11,486
Posted By Leon Starr
I knew it had to be something like that. I had...

I knew it had to be something like that. I had been trying every modifier combination to no avail. Nice - I like the way it works!
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2008-06-30, 11:09 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 11,486
Posted By Leon Starr
No, it's not working for me. There are two kinds...

No, it's not working for me. There are two kinds of control points. The ones that have bezier controls when I click and drag and the ones that don't. I tried clicking on the sharp corner control...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2008-06-30, 08:20 PM
Replies: 4
Views: 11,486
Posted By Leon Starr
How to change control point to/from curve

Let's say I select the pen tool and start drawing a custom shape. Depending on whether I drag or click when creating a control point I get either a corner or a bendy point (not sure of the technical...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2008-06-26, 08:03 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 6,416
Posted By Leon Starr
Stencil question / feature request

This might be a feature request unless I am missing something.

One of the problems with the stencil view is that a shape may be small and appear really tiny in the green grid view in the stencil...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2008-06-26, 04:10 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 9,732
Posted By Leon Starr
Feature request: Easier stencil updating

There's not much that I miss from my old Visio days, but this is a big one.

I find that I don't use the stencil feature much because the process of adding items to a stencil requires too many...
Forum: OmniGraffle General 2008-06-26, 03:54 PM
Replies: 1
Views: 8,927
Posted By Leon Starr
Seconding the custom variable feature request

I create documents where I typically define a document number like: companyname.topic.tn.21 and also a revision number such as Version 0.2 and so forth. Then I would like to have these appear on...
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