Defaults

[Jonathan Tyzack]

Hi Bill,

for the layout of the document itself, create a new document and set  
it up the way you wish OmniGraffle to have its defaults (e.g.  
portrait or landscape, grid/no grid, snap to grid/don't snap to grid,  
ruler/no ruler, etc). Then save it as a template. Choose that  
template from the list in Preferences>Templates and it will be the  
style of document that opens whenever you choose File>New or create a  
new document using command-N.

For the toolbar, option-click the tool which you want to alter the  
defaults for. Option-clicking it changes the tool to "inspect" mode  
(a little i badge will appear on it at lower left). You can then edit  
the parameters of the tool to what you want the default to be (e.g.  
for the shape tool you can then select the actual shape, its fill,  
its colour, its line-style, etc). You may want to duplicate the  
original style for that tool first by control clicking it and  
selecting duplicate tool. You can also use the duplication to create  
a set of different settings for all your tools.

Cheers,

Jonathan


On 19 Jan 2006, at 17:19, William Conable wrote:

> Is there a way to alter the O-G defaults, so that, for instance,  
> text was styled to fit within a box and make the box expand  
> whenever you do text in a box, without having to repeatedly set it  
> that way? Or whatever. I don't like a lot of the OG defaults...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Conable
> OSU School of Music
>
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