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Originally Posted by james.
I have been assessing OmniGraffle today with a view to purchase. As others in this thread have said, I find it amazing that there is not a way to change the units for the whole application. It is extremely offputting, and is making me think twice about purchasing.
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Buy it, or don't buy it -- that's your decision. Presumably you have some need to use this not inexpensive piece of software, or you wouldn't be considering its purchase. If you have some other candidate which is equally good and doesn't suffer from this heinous omission of a one-click preference setting for defaulting to US or metric units, go buy it instead. The fact that you are here grumbling suggests that you haven't found such an alternative, so by refusing to buy OmniGraffle, are you sticking your thumb in the Omni Group's eye, or your own?
Furthermore, if you read the rest of this thread, you'll notice that someone has already provided a solution (a set of templates converted to metric units) which essentially makes this all go away after the investment of oh, 5 or 10 minutes of effort. You're willing to spend $100 or more to buy this software, but it isn't going to enhance your workflow enough to recoup the one-time investment of that 5 or 10 minutes to load an alternate set of templates which have all metric units?
If the problem was that OmniGraffle didn't support using metric units, I would be 100% in support of anyone in a metric environment who thought that was a showstopper. That's not the situation here. There is a way to change the units the program uses, and not just to centimeters, but picas, points, pixels, decimal inches, yards, millimeters, etc. You even get control over the abbreviations used for some of them! See the Ruler units preference in the Canvas: Size inspector (cmd-3). What currently is not provided is a way to select a set of document templates in your preferred units, without using the Finder. If you just want OmniGraffle to behave as if the Omni developers lived in a metric country, go download Templates.zip as posted earlier in this thread, rename the existing Application Support/OmniGraffle/Templates folder to be Templates.US or Templates.original, and replace it with the new one. Want those original templates back? Rename the new Templates folder and put the original one back. That's your reason for not buying the application?