[seeker44]

@whpalmer4: Got it! Thank you. What a great community.

A tip for other OG n00bs: Whatever you name your stencil collection flat file will be the name that appears in the Stencils list icon. For example, the file kindly provided by whpalmer4 is the iA iPad stencil set. I named the file "iPad-iA" before uploading it to the iPad through iTunes, which is what now appears in my Stencils list. Awesome!
-Eric

[Joel]

A quick update as to why certain files aren't downloading properly -- In the case of the iA stencil, the download does not have the .gstencil file extension, so Safari doesn't know what application to associate it with.

In other cases, the name of the .zip file is different than the actual stencil name (underscores or dashes in place of spaces, etc.) and as a result, UIDocumentInteractionController cannot open the file.

We're looking into whether this is something we can fix on our end or not.

[Joel]

A couple of tidbits:

- If for whatever reason you edit a stencil on OmniGraffle for iPad, at this point it will be saved out as a normal OmniGraffle file and no longer show in the Stencils popover.
- As a result of the above, if you download a stencil that's uncompressed (from within OmniGraffle, using the Document Inspector), when you exit to the Document Browser, the newly-downloaded stencil will wind up as a normal OmniGraffle document as it's getting saved and compressed.

Bugs have been filed against this behavior, if your stencils are already compressed things should go okay.

[jstrande]

First, thank you for all the great insight on how to get this working!! I'm loving this on my iPad! The great thing about using this on the iPad is how easy it is to zoom in & out to quickly tweak something for detail!

When I import a stencil, it shows up on my Documents list and I accidentally opened one and then it disappeared from my stencils. Is there anyway that you could remove the stencils from the available documents to open?

Also, as an Omnigraffle newbie, it would be very helpful to have a manual to read at some point.

Thank you!!

P.S. I also purchased this for my Mac and I'll never prototype in anything else, it is an awesome tool.

[Joel]

Right now, we're keeping any custom stencils in the Document Picker in case you may want to delete the stencil (otherwise there's no other way to do so) -- We'll be adding better stencil management UI in the future, rest assured.

As for a manual, there is built in Help from the Omni menu in the Document Picker.

Hope that helps,

[jstrande]

@Joel - oh, that makes total sense. Cool on the better stencil management.

Cool, just found the help! Duh! :-)

Thank you! Keep up the awesome work - both the Mac & iPad versions are great tools!!

[bradrice]

I'm able to email stencils to myself following the instructions. However they show up as a document and only as a stencil in the list when I have that document open. Is there a way to make the stencil stay in the stencil list so I can use it for different diagrams?

[Brian]

Brad, check post #13 in the thread for info on what's going on; this is something we're working on now that we have iPads to test with. (The software simulator didn't support sending files from Safari or Mail to OmniGraffle.)

[bradrice]

I did look at #13 but even when I compress the image and send it, it doesn't stick in my stencil palette. I'm trying the webforms stencil.

[pktloss]

Not having much luck myself with most of the stencils from graffletopia.com on my iPad either. Most of them are the "flat" stencils I believe since the zip file contains just one single .stencil file.

I copy them over to iPad and they show up in the stencil pull down on a new doc but they just contain the text of each object and not the actual object itself.

It will be nice when these things work though. So much potential but really stuck for now without the right stencils. Most of what I am looking for are the network objects and cisco objects. I did get the "Basic Cisco Icons" and "Network and Peripherals" working. But that was the only two out of 8 that worked.

http://graffletopia.com/stencils/9 - Worked (Cisco Basic Icons)

http://graffletopia.com/stencils/213 - Not Flat File (Cisco Routers)

http://graffletopia.com/stencils/14 - Just Text (Cisco Services)

http://graffletopia.com/stencils/15 - Just Text (Cisco Voice)

http://graffletopia.com/stencils/16 - Just Text (Cisco Wireless)

http://graffletopia.com/stencils/13 - Just Text (Cisco Security)

http://graffletopia.com/stencils/527 - Worked (Network and Peripherals)

Also should note that it now takes a bit of time that lags between when you press on the stencil button and when it displays. Adding these stencils has significantly slowed it down. I assume its having to process or load up these stencils each time you press the button and it takes a while. Might be due to issues with the stencils not pulling up correctly?