Announcing OmniGraffle 4 beta 1

[Peter McMaster]

How about just being able to add your own units somehow?

  - Peter

On 27 May 2005, at 03:39, Joel Page wrote:

> Believe it or don't, but I actually filed a request for units of time 
> to be added for the purpose of making timelines. Sadly, they did not 
> make this cut, as angstroms and AUs didn't either.
>
> I'll hang onto this and add it to the request in our tracking database.
>
> As ever (and this goes for everyone), thanks for the feedback -- Been 
> a very busy day for myself. =)
>
> Joel
>
> On May 26, 2005, at 3:02 AM, Jonathan Sanderson wrote:
>
>> On 26 May 2005, at 05:04, Joel Page wrote:
>>
>>
>>> It is my pleasure to announce the availability of OmniGraffle 4.0 
>>> beta 1, the first beta release of the next major revision to 
>>> OmniGraffle.
>>>
>>
>> Cheers, applause, general euphoria, etc. I've only had chance to play 
>> briefly, but it's looking excellent so far.
>>
>> ObExtraFeatureRequest:
>> Document scaling via the ruler is a very welcome addition, but I'd 
>> love some more flexibility there. In particular, I'd like to be able 
>> to set scales like '1px = 2 seconds', and thus be able to define an 
>> object that's '2mins 34secs' high.
>> It's less crazy than it sounds - I work in TV, and use OmniGraffle to 
>> help shuffle programme running orders around when I'm editing a 
>> series. I'd imagine similar scaling features would also be useful for 
>> people drawing timelines and the like.
>> It does, however, open another can of worms; in such circumstances, 
>> one typically wants the scale applied on one axis only. Ouch. But 
>> hey, I'll live with whatever I can get. :-)
>>
>> -- 
>> Jonathan Sanderson
>> 'If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.' (Pascal)
>>
>
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