Standard
Features
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Documents
& Organization
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Resource
Browser
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The
Resource Browser in OmniGraffle is a great way to access both recent
documents and your entire collection of Stencils & Templates. You can
also search Stenciltown and upload new stencils for others to download.
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Document
Picker
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The
Document Picker in OmniGraffle for iOS contains your entire collection of
Graffles, Stencils, Templates, and Plug-Ins. Organize into folders,
export or duplicate, and more.
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Files
Support
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Take
advantage of the new Files app in iOS 11. All of your documents across
all of your storage providers, easily accessible.
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Groups
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Keep
things shipshape with groups. Groups can keep common objects contained
and one selection away, but each item still completely accessible with
another click or tap.
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Canvases
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Your
document might not be just one page. Or version. Use Canvases as
different pages to draw different things on, or as pages to draw
different versions of things.
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Canvas
Size Modes
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Three
different ways to set up your Canvas: Fixed, Flexible, and Infinite.
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App
Lock
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Secure
your documents with an additional password or Touch ID.
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Units
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Set
your document to use whatever unit you want: inches, pixels, millimeters,
or feet. Or more!
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SVG
Import & Paste
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We¡¯ve added the
ability to import even more: paste SVG code or files directly onto your
canvas.
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Layers
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Layers
can be used to organize each canvas, absolutely, but they¡¯re also used to
provide depth, law and order, and more.
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Document
Scale
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Create
Graffle documents at any scale. Use it to plan an entire estate and still
print it on a sheet of paper.
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Tools
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Drag
and Drop
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Bring
text or graphics into OmniGraffle 3 using iOS 11¡¯s native Drag and
Drop support between apps. Plus, inside OmniGraffle, rearrange your
Object Sidebar hierarchy.
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Selection
Tool
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Use the
Selection Tool to select one, two, or many different objects on your
canvas. You can select multiple objects on the Mac by clicking and
dragging. On iOS, keep one object selected and then tap a few more.
Double-click or -tap to add or edit text on an object.
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Shape
Tool
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Squares,
rectangles, circles, triangles, and more. OmniGraffle¡¯s default library
contains a ton of common (and uncommon) shapes.
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Line
Tool
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Add
lines to connect shapes or objects to your Canvas. Lines can be straight,
orthogonal, curved, or Bézier.
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Text
Tool
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Used
for adding text labels to a Line or a piece of text on the Canvas.
Complete with margins, spacing, line-height, and more. Kerning available
on Mac.
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Pen
Tool
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Use the
pen tool to create custom shapes with Bézier points. Start a shape with a
click, add more points along the way with another click, and double-click
to finish.
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Point
Editor Tool
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The
Point Editor Tool moves aside the typical (length and width) bounding box
to focus on each point on the selected object.
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Additional
Tools
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Diagramming
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Use the
Diagramming Tool to quickly create additional children directly on the
Canvas. Set up a connection by clicking a point in the diagram, and then
clicking again where you¡¯d like the next one.
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Style
Brush
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The
Style Brush is used to Copy and Paste certain elements from a shape, to
another shape. You can pick and choose which characteristics to share
with other shapes right from the toolbar button.
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Rubber
Stamp
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Use the
Rubber Stamp to rapidly copy and paste objects onto the Canvas.
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Browse
Action Tool
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Use the
Action Browse Tool to click interactive objects and invoke their assigned
action. You can create and activate Actions in Pro, but only activate in
Standard.
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Magnet
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Common
points (like north, south, east, and west) are a click away in the
Properties Inspector, or you can use the Magnet Tool to decide exactly
where a line is going to attach.
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Zoom
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Use
Zoom to magnify just the part of the Canvas you¡¯d like to fill
your OmniGraffle window. Or, click anywhere on the canvas to zoom in
incrementally.
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Hand
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Use the
Hand to pan around your Canvas. It¡¯s only used for panning.
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The
Floating Tool Palette
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Move
the new tool palette in the way or out of the way—it can be
collapsed or placed vertically or horizontally in any corner.
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The
Unified Sidebar
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The
Unified Sidebar
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New in
7 and 3: We¡¯ve integrated each and every object in with layers and
canvases, making organization, labeling, and moving objects around even
easier.
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Layers
Tab
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Rearrange
shapes, create groups, and access Quick Actions: Zoom to Selection, Copy
Object Style, etc.
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Outline
Tab
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OmniGraffle
is incredibly good at making a wide range of flowcharts (or mind maps—whatever you call
them is what it does!). Click in the tab to get started, return to create
a new item, tab to indent, and shift-tab to outdent.
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Guides
Tab
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Shows
you all of your vertical and horizontal guides on one page. You can
create new guides, copy and paste guides into another canvas, and quickly
get rid of them all.
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Selection
Tab
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Your
document is made up of different elements, though some share
similarities. OmniGraffle offers easy selection access to objects that
share the same styles. Example: all objects that use 12 point Times New
Roman AND cast a shadow. In one click you can select them all before
choosing something else.
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Move
Fast
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Apple
Pencil Support
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Enjoy
the easy, natural precision of the new Apple Pencil when creating and
editing shapes and lines — make your documents pixel-perfect, even faster. And customize
the double-tap gesture: make it switch to the previous tool or toggle the
Navigation Sidebar, Inspector, or full-screen mode. (OmniGraffle supports
both generations of the Apple Pencil, but the double-tap gesture is a
feature of the 2nd generation.)
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Touch
Bar Support
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OmniGraffle
has built-in support for Apple¡¯s Touch Bar. With nothing
selected, the options are simple: add a shape, add a stencil, add an
image, or zoom. When you select something the Touch Bar reacts to show
you controls that apply to that object—like fill
or rotate.
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Stencils
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Stencils
are collections of common elements that can be reused and are easy to
access. Plus, OmniGraffle has instant search access to Stenciltown: a
free collection of stencils that people just like you have created to
share with others. The Stencil window is available in either Sidebar, or
as a floating window.
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Templates
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A
template is a document that acts as a common starting point for new
documents. It specifies document units, whether or not they have grids,
colors, and more. OmniGraffle comes with several included, and it¡¯s very easy to
create your own.
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Fill
Color Suggestions
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A
simple color palette for Solid Fill — something to get you going.
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Advanced
Export
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OmniGraffle
exports to many graphics formats. PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PDF, EPS,
PSD. And for folks that want an outline of a diagram, OmniOutliner. New
in 7: For a lot of folks, multi-resolution files are necessary;
OmniGraffle makes it super easy. When exporting, choose your base DPI.
Then add more resolutions with the + button!
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Smart
Duplicate
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With
Smart Duplicate, placing additional copies of common objects is painless.
Duplicate once with Command-D, put the resulting item right where you
want it, and then keep duplicating: each additional object will keep the
initial spacing and alignment values you set.
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Automatic
Layout
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One of
OmniGraffle¡¯s most-used features is Diagram Layout, powered by the
Graphviz engine. Space out nodes on Circular, Radial, Hierarchical, or
Force-Directed charts as quickly as pushing a button, or turn on
Automatic Layout (Mac-only) for as-you-type speed.
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Keyboard
Shortcut Sets
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Opinions
about ¡°what¡¯s right¡±
for Zoom In/Out have always been strong! Set shortcuts for menu bar
actions and tools right in OmniGraffle. Plus, choose from apps you might
already be used to; Adobe Illustrator and Sketch sets are included
already.
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Center
Move Handle
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Moving
a group of objects has never been easier with the new, Center Move Handle
positioned over whatever is currently selected.
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Hardware
Keyboard Support
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When
using Apple¡¯s Smart Keyboard or other Bluetooth keyboards, you¡¯ll have access to a plethora of shortcuts.
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The
Inspectors
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Flexible
Inspectors
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Refined
in 7, OmniGraffle¡¯s Object, Properties, Canvas, and Document inspectors make
tweaking styles and settings easy. The inspectors are available as a
sidebar—on the right—but
can easily be deconstructed and turned into your Very Own Monster. Drag
them out by grabbing the expansion arrow next to each inspector¡¯s name.
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Object
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The
object inspector controls each and every aspect of each shape or text
object.
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Workspaces
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The
next level of customizing your environment for speedy work. Save your
favorite workflow configurations—including the Toolbar, Status
Bar, Extras, and Inspector Window positions—so
you can switch between them, fast.
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Properties
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This
inspector controls connections between actions in OmniGraffle Standard;
more functionality is available in OmniGraffle Pro.
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Canvas
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The
Canvas inspector contains settings for each individual canvas. You can
turn on the Infinite Canvas, set ruler units, and enable grid spacing.
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Document
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Document-specific
setting like file format, margins for printing, and document-wide
metadata.
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Alignment
and Guides
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Rulers
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Enable
Horizontal and Vertical Rulers with Command-R. Change the Origin Point on
the canvas where the horizontal and vertical rulers meet. When moving
objects around on the Canvas, their edges will also appear on the ruler
for guidance.
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Manual
Guides
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With
the Rulers open, drag out a manual guide from the horizontal or vertical
ruler to place your own alignment guides. Even more control.
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Object
Alignment
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Align
the different edges of objects, specify spacing between objects, and
align objects to your Canvas¡¯s grid.
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Smart
Guides
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Smart
Guides look at common sizes and distances on the canvas and offer ¡°snap¡± suggestions when the object¡¯s
distance from other objects seems important. On the Mac, we use Force
Touch feedback so you can feel when something lines up. New in 7 for Mac:
Hold option when hovering over an object to find the distance between
your selection(s).
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Grids
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With
the grid turned on, enable Snap to Grid to help with alignment.
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More
With Objects
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Vector
Drawing
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Everything
created in OmniGraffle is a vector shape, scalable even to the biggest
sizes. Keep that vector going by exporting to PDF. (SVG and EPS also
available in Pro for Mac.)
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Gradients
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Apply a
gradient to any shape in OmniGraffle. Create linear, radial, and double
gradients.
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Path-Following
Text
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Make
your text stick right to the edge of a path. Double-click on a line to
add text, or drag a text object onto a line.
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Stroke
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Add a
stroke to any line or shape, image, or block of text. Outside of the
standard stroke styles (single, double, inside, outside), Freehand and
Plastic offer different looks for documents that might need a unique or ¡°rough¡± design.
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Image
Masking
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Make
non-destructive cropping and transparency changes to images directly in
your documents.
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Shape
Recognition
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Prototyping
made faster. Sketch out a rough shape and OmniGraffle will figure out
what you meant. Tap Undo to revert to the original sketch.
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Pro
Features
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Advanced
Organization
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Shared
Layers
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Shared
Layers are most often things that you want on each Canvas that won¡¯t be changed
often, but need to be easy to change when you do—they
make sharing common assets easy. Headers, footers, logos — things like that.
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Artboard
Layers
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Use
artboards and Artboard Layers for organizing your document and, on the
Mac, setting up elements for exporting. They uniquely alter your
interactions with elements above them by making moves quick and easy:
anything contained in or on an artboard will be moved at the same time.
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Subgraphs
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When
Canvases become cluttered, subgraphs are the easiest way to clean them
up. Subgraphs enable you to collapse graphics that don¡¯t need to be shown
all the times, but remain a click away.
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Files,
I/O
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Visio
Import and Export
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We put
a lot of work into our Visio¢ç support. OmniGraffle can read files,
templates, and stencils: .vsd, .vsdx, .vdx, .vst, .vtx, .vss, .vsx. While
OmniGraffle does import both binary and XML formats, OmniGraffle exports
as XML.
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SVG
Export
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Export
using Artboards, or Copy As SVG to paste into an HTML document or
supported app.
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HTML
Image Maps
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Combine
your graphics with Actions and then export as an Image Map. Action Links
are preserved to quickly navigate your exported document in a web
browser.
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Moving
Faster
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Artboard
Presentation Mode
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For
mockup demonstrations, full-screen unveilings, or meetings, use
Presentation Mode to cycle through your documents¡¯ Canvases and
Artboards. Zoom in (just like when editing the Canvas) or add Actions to
objects for more control.
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Mouseless
Editing
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Use the
keyboard to move from one shape to the next without ever touching your
mouse or Trackpad. Great for editing text.
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Tables
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Convert
to a table by pressing Command-Shift-T, then add additional columns and
rows any direction as needed.
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Automation
with JavaScript or AppleScript
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Cross-platform
scripting for both iOS and macOS with JavaScript. Write automation once
and run it everywhere. Create Plug-Ins, scripts, and get more done,
faster. Plus, good, old-fashioned AppleScript on Mac.
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Interactive
Actions
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Set up
actions to hide layers, switch to or zoom in on a different view or
canvas, and even run a script.
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Share
Keyboard Sets
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In Pro,
export your customized Keyboard Shortcut Sets to share with others.
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Pro
Graphics
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Shape
Combinations
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Non-destructively
unite, intersect, and subtract objects. Uncombine later to make changes
to the original shapes.
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Convert
Text to Shapes
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The
power to edit character shapes without firing up the font editor. Convert
any text to Bézier-handled objects to add an extra flick to the swash of
your ¡®g¡¯ descender.
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Convert
Line to Shape
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Turn a
line¡¯s stroke into a shape with easily editable Bézier points so
you can give it a gradient or fill effect.
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Fill
Blend Modes
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Use
standard graphic blending modes for additional ¡°filters¡± that you can layer on to objects.
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Fill
Distortion Effects
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Give an
object a distortion effect that can change whatever is below it: blur,
pixelate, or magnify. Pair this with blend modes for even more of those
must-have effects.
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Even
More Pro‑cise
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Resolution
Independence
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For
when you¡¯re designing for multiple screens—on
multiple screens. When zoom is at 100%, match a screen pixel, Apple
point, or PostScript point. All your design work will look the same on
all your displays.
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Precise
Point Positioning
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Combine
the Point Editor Tool and the Geometry Inspector (or Mini Inspector!) to
change the X and Y coordinates of any point on the object.
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Object
Metadata
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Any
object on the canvas can have its own identification and metadata. A
name, a note, a bunch of key:value pairs—even it¡¯s
own attached AppleScript or JavaScript. Use these for interactions later
on, too.
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