feature request (prev. I'm curious)

[Erithacus rubecula]

Hi Brian,
>
>> Can you share with us what the most popular requests are?
>
> Image support
> Document/File attachments
> Customizable document headers/footers
> Palm support
> URL support
> Print Selected/Checked/Unchecked
> Hide (but don't destroy) Checked Items
> Print the Column Headers
> Auto-Save
> Hide drag handles/Disclosure triangles when printing.
>
> Out of the roughly 1000 bugs/feature requests we have written up, these
> are the folks that really stand out from the crowd. There's a ton more
> that have between one and a handful of requests attached to them.
>
I must say that this list surprises me. No I'm not trying to advocate 
that my request goes above the sheer numbers of others. I'm just 
expressing my surprise. Either because i) it's exactly as you say and 
therefore it's just a plain simple surprise, or ii) it's a feature 
that's slipped up because it might be considered as a feature request 
of OmniGraffle.

The feature that I can't see is forwards and backwards compatability, 
updating or whatever you might call, the ability to go from OO to OG 
and then back again seamlessly and as frequently as you want with all 
changes reflected in both documents. Or even (to put the dual package 
of OO and OG on an equal footing with Inspiration) the ability to go 
from ideas in OG and then to automatically create and outline in OO 
(instead of having to start with OO and then go to OG). This is 
certainly a feature that I've requested along time ago. I'm surprised 
(given the number of folks that like Inspiration) that this is not a 
more popular request. Could it be that I've missed something here, or 
could it be the way the feature requests are compiled means that it 
wouldn't show up? Worst case scenario the feature wish list of OO and 
the separate feature list of OG don't clock this request because they 
think respectively that it's the domain of the other application.

To you other OO users who might like this - if this is a feature that 
you also wanted to be included I guess an email request (cut paste and 
'ditto') might raise the profile. If I'm truly one of the few that 
wanted this inter-operability, then I guess it's another in the list of 
things that I'm learning new every day :-)

best,

Robin