My OmniGraffle Wish: Converted Scale Values
Posted January 8th, 2006 @ 12:39pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Lately, I've had the need to lay out a lot of stuff in OmniGraffle lately. You know what would be nice? A "Conversion Scale." In other words, I'd draw a block and say "for the purpose of this document, this rectangle is 10 feet wide. Then I could enter sizes for things (chairs, tables, etc.) in feet and inches and OmniGraffle could scale them to the appropriate pixel size.
If I had to specify a manual ratio (1 square = ½ foot), that too could work, but the prior seems a bit more intuitive.
The only way to do this in OmniGraffle currently is to determine your own scale and keep it as simple as possible, like "1 pixel = 1 inch." This leaves a lot to be desired if the ideal scale can't be accommodated due to the size of your project area.
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Posted 08 Jan 2006 at 4:50pm #
OmniGraffle 4.1 supports this; you have to show the rulers in a document and from there it should be reasonably obvious...
I think this feature was new in 4.
Posted 08 Jan 2006 at 6:12pm #
No, it doesn't support conversions. What I'd like to do is to enter in
18 inchesand have that converted to whatever scale I have chosen for that document (perhaps 18 pixels, perhaps 10 pixels, perhaps 0.2321 inches).Yes, OmniGraffle allows you to change the measurement, but it does no conversion (beyond the 1:1 ratio).
Posted 14 Jan 2006 at 8:59pm #
Are you sure you've found OmniGraffle 4's new ruler scale feature? If you set the scale to "1 in = 8 ft" (for example), you can enter the width of a shape as "12 ft" and it will create a shape which only uses 1.5 inches of canvas.
Posted 15 Jan 2006 at 9:33am #
I likely haven't found that, then, as that's what I'm after. I'll have a look.