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Omnigraffle 6 subtract shapes1/13/2024 ![]() Click the reverse button to swap the line’s source and destination points.Ĭlick Remove Midpoints to get rid of all points between the source and destination points. Use the fields below the tail and head menus to change the line ending sizes. Use the middle menu to set how the line travels from its source to its destination: Straight for a line that takes the shortest possible path between points, Curved for a line that turns smoothly to pass through each point, Orthogonal for a line that always travels horizontally or vertically, or Bézier for a line with control points you can adjust with the selection tool. ![]() Use the tail and head menus to set the line endings. ![]() The three pop-up menus determine the style of the tail, middle, and head of the line. Use this inspector to configure the properties of a selected line. You can also edit the fill color of a canvas itself using the Canvas Fill inspector. Click them to choose the colors to blend together.ĭrag the bias slider on the far right to shift a blend toward one side or the other. If you choose a blend, two or three color wells become available. If you have chosen a two-color blend, you can click the swap button to exchange the two colors. The blend position control becomes active when you choose a radial gradient drag its crosshair to move the gradient’s center.Ĭlick the color well to choose the color of the fill. The blend rotation control becomes active when you choose a linear blend enter a number of degrees in the field or drag the circular control to set the angle of the gradient. No Fill is also available as an option for objects where transparency is desired. Use the pop-up menu on the left side of the inspector to choose from the nine kinds of fill: Solid, Linear Blend, Radial Blend, Double Linear Blend, Double Radial Blend, Stipple, Marker, and Squiggle. Use the Fill inspector to choose a color or gradient to fill the inside of the selected shapes. Add ( +), subtract ( −), multiply ( *), or divide ( /) numbers right in the input fields. You can also perform simple arithmetic and mix units. As soon as you finish entering the value, OmniGraffle converts it to the correct units automatically. You can, however, enter values in any units that are available in the ruler, such as miles or kilometers. In places where you can enter measurements, such as in the Geometry inspector, values are shown in the current ruler units, or, if there is no unit scale, in the canvas units. When you drag to an object, you can drop the color on the object’s stroke, fill, or text. Also, once you click a circular rotation control, you can keep the mouse button held down while moving the pointer away from the control to gain more rotational precision.Īny color well can have its color dragged to an object on the canvas or to another color well. In all of the inspectors, you can click in a text field that contains a number, and then press the up or down arrow keys to increment or decrement the number. The lock also goes away when you switch to another Inspector for example, from a locked Object inspector to the Type inspector. When you’re done, just double-click the button again and the lock icon goes away. As you show and hide other sections in the same inspector window, the locked section remains visible. Just double-click the Inspector’s button instead of single-clicking it the button gets a green lock icon. If you find that you’re using a particular Inspector section quite a bit, you can lock it in the open position. To open or close all of the inspectors, Shift-Command-click on one of the disclosure triangles. ![]() To open one particular inspector (for example the Stroke inspector) and close any other open inspectors, Shift-Option-click on the disclosure triangle. To open an Inspector, hover over the title with the mouse, and then click on the disclosure triangle to open and use the inspector. Within each Inspector, you’ll find multiple, collapsable inspectors for changing the properties of an object. You can browse the various Inspector categories by clicking the icons along the top of the sidebar. Inspectors are grouped by the type of content they govern. The Inspectors sidebar contains five inspectors-Object, Type, Properties, Canvas, and Document-and the Stencils Library, which used to have its own floating palette in earlier versions of OmniGraffle. If you don’t see them, click the Inspect button in the toolbar, or choose View ▸ Show Inspectors ( Shift-Command-I) from the menu bar. You use the Inspectors to change the style attributes for the objects on the Canvas, or set the properties of the Canvas itself. Along the right side of the window, you’ll find the Inspectors sidebar.
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