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Craig replied on March 23, 2009 21:42 to the idea "Redistributable Graffle View with Action Support" in The Omni Group:

Ahh, I didn't know that OG would work unlicensed; that will happen to do the trick in this particular case.

Also, I'll send future suggestions directly to your support team. Thanks for the tips.

Craig shared an idea in The Omni Group on March 22, 2009 19:20:

Redistributable Graffle View with Action Support

Being able to export to PDF and have the canvases link to each other is great. However, I'd like to be able to take this one step further and export my diagram to some common format (or even a standalone program) that can support my other Actions (specifically turning layers on/off) without the recipient needing to own a copy of OmniGraffle.

The HTML export seems to be pretty close; perhaps a bit of JavaScript would do the trick?

Craig replied on March 19, 2009 04:20 to the idea "Snap Lines when objects are Centered Vertically or Horizontally" in Balsamiq:

Looks good to me

Craig replied on March 14, 2009 17:44 to the idea "an "Annotations" layer" in Balsamiq:

This would definitely be a nice feature to have. Full-blown layers would be best (as it could be used for other stuff too) but it doesn't necessarily have to go that far... just something to be able to hide all annotations with a simple UI action.

Craig started following the idea "an "Annotations" layer" in Balsamiq.

Craig started following the idea "Help me design the Linking Mockups Feature" in Balsamiq.

Craig replied on March 14, 2009 16:59 to the idea "Show graph paper lines through container" in Balsamiq:

One thing I just discovered with the grid add-on... it lets me define the size of my contained area without having to guess the size of the container itself.

For example: the Web Browser container has a big menu bar at the top and a status bar at the bottom... meaning the content area inside is a bunch smaller (and unknown) relative to its full size. With Grids, I just have to expand the grid to my desired size and then expand the Web Browser until it fits around it. Balsamiq's snap lines make this easy to do.

Craig replied on March 14, 2009 16:54 to the idea "Show position while moving objects" in Balsamiq:

Heh, I'm definitely bringing in a lot of pixel-perfect desires (and feel free to treat them as such).

Here's what I was doing: I wanted to create a container that was 2/3 the width of my parent container and centered. Getting the size right was super-easy (way better than any drawing program I've seen; usually the size is in tiny text on the status bar). However, getting the position right was very difficult; I had to stop moving and re-hover over the transparent properties box to see it.

I supposed with centering snap (a much more important feature) lines this won't be an issue... but it would still be nice to have.

Craig replied on March 14, 2009 16:50 to the idea "Show graph paper lines through container" in Balsamiq:

> so that you are encouraged to move the browser to the back, so that you don't select it accidentally all the time

I definitely have it at the back layer, and always lock it so that I'm not selecting it (all which works well).

The grids look interesting as a workaround... I'd like to see it added into the base product though. "Snap to Grid" is always a useful feature (although so far I haven't been bothered by it's absence). The biggest problem with the grid bmml is that it's only for horizontal alignment (though I think that could be fixed easily).

BTW, I think the current alignment lines work very well (except for the lack of centering lines which I see is is already on the idea list).

Craig shared an idea in Balsamiq on March 14, 2009 16:41:

Show position while moving objects

When you're resizing a container, you get a nice, real-time, & visible display of the size. I'd like that same display to be shown for the position (top left) while moving an object.

Right now, I can only see the position in the properties box for the object... but it turns transparent (and unreadable) as soon as I move my cursor off of the box.

Craig shared an idea in Balsamiq on March 14, 2009 16:36:

Show graph paper lines through container

If you have a container (and I almost always do) it blocks the appearance of graph paper lines... meaning they aren't useful for positioning everything inside the container (ie: almost everything else).

There's also no transparency option for (at least the web browser) container so you can't fake it (though that's a less-than-ideal situation anyway).

What might work is if, while you're dragging or resizing any object, you display the graph paper lines over top of everything else (similar to what you do with snap lines).

Craig started following the idea "Snap Lines when objects are Centered Vertically or Horizontally" in Balsamiq.

Craig marked one of Melanie Baker's replies in PostRank as useful. Melanie Baker replied to the problem "The AideRSS controls don't appear in Google Reader.".

Craig marked one of Omni Support Ninja's replies in The Omni Group as useful. Omni Support Ninja replied to the question "Align Fonts by Baseline".

Craig replied on March 06, 2009 01:12 to the question "Align Fonts by Baseline" in The Omni Group:

Great. FWIW I think it's a very good feature to have. OmniGraffle is approaching "perfect product" status so these little bumps tend to stand out. :-P

Craig started following the idea "Make a "visio safe mode" for Omnigraffle." in The Omni Group.

Craig replied on March 05, 2009 00:58 to the question "Align Fonts by Baseline" in The Omni Group:

I should add: I see that there's Format->Font->Baseline, but all of the menu items are grayed out... I'm not sure why this is. I'm using Georgia as my font.

Craig asked a question in The Omni Group on March 05, 2009 00:57:

Align Fonts by Baseline

I have two text objects with different font sizes. The larger one has a descender. I want to align them so that their baselines are aligned. However, OmniGraffle is taking the descender into account when aligning the bottoms of the text boxes, meaning that the smaller-font text box appears lower than (most of) the larger one.

Craig replied on March 04, 2009 22:10 to the problem "The AideRSS controls don't appear in Google Reader." in PostRank:

Ok; hope it's an easy fix. :-)

Craig replied on March 04, 2009 21:20 to the problem "The AideRSS controls don't appear in Google Reader." in PostRank:

(OS X 10.5 that is)