Graffle fun

I finally decided early this afternoon that I was going to figure out how make the OmniGraffle geometry pallet work in pixels instead of inches. It's been bugging me ever since I finally upgraded from version 3. I did find the completely non obvious answer but along the way I stumbled onto something quite wonderful.

Graffletopia is a really neat toy for OmniGraffle users. The site (by Patrick Crowley) bills itself as 'Stencils for OmniGraffle'. That's a serious undersell. I've picked up a few templates over the years by picking through collections, but this is the best resource yet for someone seeking (or wishing to publish) templates for OmniGraffle.

I finally found an incantation to get the geometry pallet work in pixels instead of inches, but I'm not too happy about it. Measurement changes seem to be global. You need to view the Rulers (menu View -> Rulers, cmd-R or click on the Rulers icon) which I don't recall doing before. Once the Ruler strip is available, changing the units is simple but as I said, global.

Rats.