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[Preston Jackson]

I'm not sure if this will accomplish what you want but I've found 
dragging a file (from Finder or Preview or whatever) into a OmniGraffle 
document will "import" it. It essentially creates a new square shape 
and sets the image (see the "Style Info" pallet). You can then do all 
sorts of nifty things to the image like scale, rotate, make 
translucent... OG seems to accept just about everything that Preview 
can display. Alternatively, you can make a shape (any type, including 
polygons) and drag the image onto the shape or onto the image well in 
the Style Info pallet. Then you get the image drawn in your arbitrary 
shape.

Hope this helps with your first question.

About the second: I'm not sure that jpeg supports transparency, but I 
could be wrong. The tiff format seems to export with transparency for 
me (as does png). The only suggestion I have is to make sure that you 
check the "Transparent Background" checkbox in the Export dialog.

Preston Jackson
BYU Configurable Computing Laboratory
pjackson at ee.byu.edu


On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 11:37  AM, Edwin Sanchez wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Just discovered OG and think it is great overall.  I mostly intend to 
> use it for graphics - to make illustrations from my work - mostly 
> centering around images manipulated with photoshop.
>
> I have two questions.
>
> First, is there a way to import images (JPEGS, PICTS or TIFFS) into 
> OG?  I can't figure that one out.
>
> Second, background transparency does not work for OG graphics exported 
> as JPEGs or Tiffs.  In this case, I am trying to import the OG 
> graphics into Powerpoint.
>
> Any help is appreciated!
>
> Am running OS10.2.1 with 933 gHz G4 desktop.
>
> PS  I sent email to the support people but have not heard back.  Is 
> this typical?
>
>
> Edwin R. Sanchez, Ph.D.
> Professor of Pharmacology
> Medical College of Ohio
> Toledo, OH 43614
> esanchez at mco.edu
> http://www.mco.edu/depts/pharm/faculty.html
>
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