Making presentations, new Omnigraffle

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OmnigraffleUsually I use a slightly hacked version of txt2slides to make presentations. Today I've been making something that's not going to be webified anyway, so I figured I should play with the fancy technicolor tools.

Keynote is super neat, but there are a bit too many "hmn, how can I make it ...." moments that ends up unresolved. Still very cool though. I used PowerPoint once and this is just so much more fun. When I make it save the presentation as a bundle the files gets saved in a way that's more compatible with revision control systems than such files usually are.

The new version of Omnigraffle is bloody awesome. I've been using it for a couple of hours and there's no end to the "ooh, clever" discoveries. The earlier versions were useful; 3.0 is amazing. When you resize an element it'll show you which other elements have the same size as your current size. Likewise for distances when you are moving things. So clever; and I thought I'd need to use the grid for that sort of thing.

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Nice! Their outliner looks pretty usable as well.

Never heard of the tools myself, I'm assuming their Mac OS based?

Hi Chris,

Yes - it's for Mac OS X (and thus only applicable for ~15% of the readers, hmn... oh well :-) )


- ask

Thanks for clearing it up - In a few months I might actually be able to use it! ;)

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