Re: Proper shared objects

Thanks a lot! I almost had this figured out by myself, but something kept me from trying :) 

Anyway, I'm looking forward to see something more obvious ("Components"?) in Omnigraffle 6.0.

On Apr 14, 2010, at 1:18 AM, Joshua Dickens wrote:

> Sergey,
> 
> The way I do this is to select the items you want as your shared object, then choose Edit >  Copy As > PDF.  Then paste the pdf into your document.  This will place an image with your selected object(s) as its fill.  What’s unique about this object is that it’s  if you double-click it it will actual open the source OG objects for you to edit. Just make changes, then save and your objects will update automatically. It’s kind of like Smart Objects in Adobe Photoshop, if you’ve used those (though I think LinkBack support may pre-date Smart Objects :)
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Josh
> 
> 
> On Apr 13, 2010, at 1:29 PM, Сергей Петров wrote:
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>> Hi.
>> 
>> Omnigraffle is one instrument on my Mac I love most. Nevertheless, there is few things I can't figure out. I will be very grateful for any help.
>> 
>> Suppose you have two canvases with mockups of web pages on them. Suppose, you have same block on them, that represents header of web page (logo, menu, etc). Seems like job for shared layers, eh? 
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>> Now, suppose, that you have footer as well. And length of this two pages is different. Is there any way to use same footer on both canvases, but with different positioning?
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>> In fact, question is a little bit wider: is there any way to have something like stencil library of building blocks, or "includes". Some way to define "block: list-with-suggest" and use it in different canvases. But not like stencil library — when I change block definition, it should change everywhere (like with shared layers).
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