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Omnigraffle 5.01/17/2024 ![]() ![]() There’s also a tools palette that can be anchored to the top of the active window or float. Gone are the 18 or so floating palettes, and in their place are three (effectively tabbed), palettes that share 15 panes between them: easier to keep track of, if not as fast for power users. The big interface bugbear of the last version has been trimmed at a stroke. Version 3 was good, but version 4 shows how much more ease of use can be squeezed out of an application if you really try. OmniGraffle Pro is a superb charting and diagramming application, designed to provide right-brain functionality for left-brained people. Not all Mac users class themselves as right-brained designers, video editors, or graphics people. Omnigraffle Professional 4 Wednesday 16th November, 2005 ![]() Keep up the great work on the blogs.Dyce & Sons | Omnigraffle Professional 4 Dyce & Sons Ltd. I don't use Visio all that much, so running in it Fusion works for me, but I'm always looking for ways to slowly switch to native Mac apps when it makes sense. Anyways, I'm also searching for the same 2 replacement apps you are: Visio and OneNote. The lack of solid multi-monitor support is definitely annoying me right now. Once Fusion hits 2.0, I'll be really productive. I then run individual VMs for each client. I keep one VM (actually it's my Boot Camp partition) that runs my SQL Server database as well as my source control system. I'm still amazed I can run 2 Windows virtual machines simultaneously with OS X with negligible hit to performance. I live and breathe in Visual Studio on a daily basis, so I'm still very much a Windows guy, but I would rather die than switch back to a PC laptop. It's clearly the best Windows laptop I've ever owned. ![]() I was a diehard PC/Windows fan until last October when I got myself a sweet, new 17" MacBook Pro as my primary machine. I read your article from a few days ago and kept shaking my head in agreement. For things like this, I've found that Visio is faster than OmniGraffle, but that is the only issue I've ever had with OmniGraffle. You need a top end processor and at the very least 2 GB of RAM to get OmniGraffle to work effectively with documents larger than about 11" x 17". One caveat though, is that I do poster presentations at conferences from time to time, and have found that for poster size documents, OmniGraffle can really suffer a slow down. I regularly get compliments from my colleagues on the design and appearance of the figures in my documents. I use OmniGraffle regularly for making figures and diagrams for research articles, and complicated images for use in Keynote for talks and lectures when what I need is beyond the built in tools in Keynote. And for some strange reason, they always say "I wish I could do that on Windows", not realizing that they can do all they need on a Mac, and do it faster and easier. whip out something that looks better and is clearer and easier to understand than what they've been working on all day. I just fire up my Mac, pop open OmniGraffle, and in 10 - 20 min. I'm in academics, and I've repeatedly seen fellow researchers who use Windows struggle with the complexity of Illustrator or Freehand to make figures for their research manuscripts and had to laugh. :) I've been using OmniGraffle since v3 and it is the single best graphic application I've ever used. Glad to see another individual recovered from The Collective. ![]()
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