Build Killer Charts
Posted 03/31/2006 at 7:14pm
| by John Brandon and Niko Coucouvanis
Step 5: Style Your Profile
OmniGraffle's Style Inspector is pretty self-explanatory; move your cursor over the main icons to reveal their purposes, and set a text box's Fill, Shadow, Lines And Shapes, Image, and Text attributes. The trick is getting consistent styles across multiple items in the chart - but as luck would have it, we've got two tricks for style propagation: If you've crafted the perfect style on one text box, click the Style Summary icon. The panel will show all of the styles you've applied to the selected box and a cumulative All Styles icon - simply drag the All Styles icon onto any text box to replicate the style. Or plan ahead and select multiple text boxes before digging into the Style Inspector. All of the selected items will adopt your Style changes.

Shift-select multiple items to apply styles in bulk, or select a styled item and drag its styles onto other items.