Re: Shared layers, multiple canvases, and printing

HI 

I have a question about the shared canvasses - Why is it not taking page
numbers through on my top shared canvas.

Really preferred concept of masters.


On 30/10/08 9:40 AM, "William Van Hecke" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Mike,
> 
> Would OmniGraffle's LinkBack support be of use to you?
> 
> - Select a bunch of objects
> - Choose Copy as PDF from the Edit menu.
> - Delete the original objects.
> - Paste; you get a single object, whose image is a PDF representation
> of the objects you copied.
> - Copy the PDF object and paste it anywhere you need to place the
> objects within a larger diagram.
> - If you want to edit the original objects, double-click one of your
> PDF objects; a new OmniGraffle window opens. When you save your
> changes there, the PDF is updated anywhere it occurs in your document.
> 
> I hope you can get the results you want!
> 
> William Van Hecke
> ~User Experience Lead~
> The Omni Group
> 
> 
> On Oct 29, 2008, at 15:25, Mike Dodson wrote:
> 
>> All,
>> 
>> I'm a recent convert to OG and have been very happy, but I'm
>> struggling to find a way to accomplish something without having to
>> draw everything twice.
>> 
>> I'm working on a very large drawing (canvas size 36" x 60").  It has
>> many interconnected components so the ability to view it all on a
>> single printed page is important.  The large print helps give a
>> graphical sense of the "flows" from one component to another.  This
>> is working great.
>> 
>> Now I need to add a lot of detail to each of the components.  To
>> present and review this information I'd really like to print each
>> component on a single (say US Letter-sized) page, but I'd like to
>> enter that detailed information only once.  I don't want to recreate
>> each component on a separate canvas because then I'd have to
>> maintain it in two places.
>> 
>> Is there a way that I can use layers/canvas/... to have a single
>> object that sometimes is printed on the large page with many other
>> objects, but other times is printed by itself on a suitably-sized
>> page?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
>> 
>> -Mike
>> 
>> 
>> 
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