Importing Shapes

[Kevin Steele]

Hi Robb,

All of the OmniGraffle shapes (except for rounded rectangles) and all of 
the line endings are defined in the file
	OmniGraffle.app/Contents/Resources/shape.graffleshapes
It's a text readable file if you want to take a look at it.   You can 
also view it with /Developer/Applications/PropertyListEditor.app.

When OmniGraffle is launched, it also looks for shape files in
     ~/Library/Application Support/OmniGraffle/Shapes

Any additional shapes and arrowheads will show up on the shape and line 
info panes.

Here's the test file I've been using:  (it defines a 4 sided polygon and 
a line ending with 2 bars)
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I did find a bug while writing this up.  There is a field in each 
shape/line end definition
             ShouldExport = YES;
This tells OmniGraffle to include the definitions in any saved documents 
so that files sent elsewhere will still show the shapes correctly.  
Unfortunately there is a bug in the current beta and the custom shape 
definitions are not getting included in saved documents.  I'm not sure 
if the fix will make it into 2.0 Beta v4, or if it will have to wait for 
v5.

We're also working on a tool for making your own shapes and line endings.

- Kevin


On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 04:05  PM, Robb Beal wrote:

> Folks.
>
> Is there a vector format where I can import a shape and the line 
> endpoints
> will follow the shape outline, ie, like the built-in shapes?
>
> Robb
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