![]() What makes Visio and Omnigraffle (and PDFs, and Illustrator) work so well is that your objects are vector images and are scalable in all directions while maintaining quality. ![]() This will get you your objects, but they'll be raster images and you will lose both detail and the ability to scale them. Many people have been recommending blowing the objects way up in Visio and using a screenshot, or exporting the document from Visio as a PNG or some such. The problem is that for a huge percentage of stencil sets, you get an error that you can't load the EMF data and get a grey rectangle or munged object. I have a lot of Visio stencils, some of which DO work in Omnigraffle using their preferred import method: Make a new drawing in Visio, drop your objects on there, save it as an xml drawing, and import that into OmniGraffle. Graffletopia does a great job, but I find myself using the Apple or Dell (mixed with the Sun, Netapp, etc) stencils that aren't really representative of my hardware, and I feel that it just doesn't seem that professional when I hand my boss a network or rack diagram that has all this disparate hardware that doesn't match anything we actually own. The thing that has held me back with OmniGraffle is the lack of stencils. ![]() ![]() Now only if the formats were open all the way around. Last year I bought OmniGraffle 4 Pro, I really, really like that app, and it makes using Visio seem like self torture. Someday, we'll live in The Future, I swear it. ![]()
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