What’s New in OmniGraffle 6

OmniGraffle 6s application icon

OmniGraffle 6 has new and re-designed features to make graffling even easier. If you’ve been a long-time OmniGraffle user, it won’t take long before you notice some changes.

We’ve polished the interface and have integrated the sidebars, inspectors, and the Stencil Library so OmniGraffle works better on different screen sizes, especially in full screen mode, taking full advantage of your Retina display.

Some additional changes we’ve made include (but certainly aren’t limited to):

  • OmniGraffle 6 offers a complete user interface redesign from the ground up.
  • Easily find your latest projects, access stencils, templates, and any styles you may have saved with the new Resource Browser.
  • OmniGraffle now runs in a Sandboxed environment, which means your resources, such as Templates and Stencils, can now be fully managed from within the app.
  • Improved and powerful controls have been added to edit and mask images placed directly on the canvas.
  • New artistic Fill and Stroke styles, such as Freehand, Stipple, and Marker.
  • Combined shapes can now be uncombined into their starting component shapes.
  • A new and powerful Font Inspector.
  • Zoom levels have been increased to 6400 percent!
  • The color and position of manual Guides can now be set by hand, and dragged from one canvas to another.
  • View your Stencils using the new List Mode in the refined Stencils Library.
  • Line labels can be set to follow the path of a line, including Bézier curves.
  • New controls have been added to specify which edge or center of an object is reflected in the Geometry Inspector, along with the ability to set the X and Y coordinates of a selected vertex point. (Pro)
  • The Notes and Data Inspector now lets you assign unique naming to individual objects. (Pro)
  • You can now set the display zoom level of 100 percent to reflect one Apple point, one screen pixel, or one PostScript point for work on Retina displays and true WYSIWYG work. (Pro)
  • Export OmniGraffle layers to Photoshop layers. (Pro)
  • Import and export Visio® files. (Pro)

These new features, combined with file synchronization with OmniPresence and Omni Sync Server, make this an incredible update worthy of a whole number.