I’m in the same boat. I recently upgraded from 5 Pro to 7 Pro.
On my wife's computer I never updated it from v5 to v6, even though I purchased the licenses long ago. What steps do I need to take to install the v7 upgrade on this computer? Also, in reading a couple of posts, the v7 upgrade seems to be updating v6 to only the latest version of 6 and not to v7. Upgrade from Angular v6 to Angular v7. Version 7 of Angular has been released Official Angular blog link. Upgrade from Angular v5 to Angular 6.0.0-rc.5. Upgrading to Macrium Reflect v7 from an existing v6 Installation with a free upgrade key. Free upgrades to v7 from v6 are available to customers with an active Support and Maintenance subscription and for v6 keys purchased on or after 26th November 2016.
I love the more macOS feel of the integrated panels vs floating panels. I find these more natural to the current state of macOS.
The Infinite Canvas feature is also really great in theory but I am struggling with how to get a canvas to export a single page as an entire 8.5'x11' page guaranteed. The alignment and visualization is very different with the Infinite Canvas vs the v5 canvas style. I’m trying to adjust, but continue to find it difficult. I mostly use OmniGraffle in software and network architecture diagrams. These can be particularly unwieldy and unpredictable when designing on canvases. The Presentation Mode is another killer addition.
I had already been using OmniGraffle to present my diagrams to groups. I found it a natural extension of my design communication style. I have begun experimenting with using OmniGraffle for designing video game levels and worlds.
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I think the Infinite Canvas will be instrumental in that process for me. Response Yes, I am building a large canvas. It stretches many pages wide, bit only one page tall (landscape oriented.) The canvases exported “pretty” in OG5 because each canvas was always a page. But now with Infinite Canvas, it cuts off space that’s empty.
Maybe to save file-size? But I actually liked the guaranteed sizing because it meant that recipients of the diagrams could print them from PDF if desired.
I also like the infinite canvas because it means I can build in 360º expansion and not be stuck or pigeonholed into a visual design methodology. USAGE Most of my diagrams depict application infrastructure and network details. Thinks like server names, IP addresses, port numbers, application names, middleware platforms, OS types, etc. However, not every canvas is diagram.
Because of the printable nature of the OG5 canvas model, I had taken to including title slides and brief summary slides which get automatically cropped now in OG7. The only workaround I can think of is to create a useless unprinted layer at exactly the dimensions required in order to ensure the document prints as desired. Or to just work in OG5. Feedback It would be nice to have a checkbox in OG7 to export the canvas at full page with the orientation selected. I would be happy to supply both the graffles and exported PDFs if you’d like them.
That doesn’t sound expected to me, but without seeing all of your settings it is hard to know for sure. May sure your export area is Current Canvas instead of All Objects if you need the white space, otherwise it will export all of your objects as one without the canvas itself. Feel free to drop us an example document using Contact Omni from the Help menu & we might be able to suggest a better solution.
A screenshot of the settings used when you export to PDF would be a great as well. Thanks, Lanette. Chrisagiddings: but I am struggling with how to get a canvas to export a single page as an entire 8.5'x11' page guaranteed. I am so lost with all of this I really HATE the infinite canvas - I need to embed drawings into Word documents and/or print them. I cannot figure out how to configure a FIXED 8.5x11 canvas that doesn’t auto-grow or move my stencil items around. And the sensitive scrolling behavior OMG I’m ready to go back to Windows just so I can use Visio. I really regret upgrading sweeping changes and suddenly I can’t work.
Krutsch: I cannot figure out how to configure a FIXED 8.5x11 canvas that doesn’t auto-grow or move my stencil items around. In the Canvas inspector, turn off Autosizing (a shortcut for this is to click on the box in the center of the arrows to toggle all of them on/off at once), turn on “Size uses printer pages”, and you should be all set.
(If you create a new document from the built-in template “Paper Sizes US Letter”, your document will already be created that way.) If you’re like me, you’ll probably also want to set the Canvas Scroll Margin to 0% so scrolling stops at the edges of your canvas. Hope this helps! Kcase: Hope this helps! Thanks for the help. Did a bit of reading on the forum and the manual and came to the same conclusion. But, when I did the above, with a new document that I had created and placed some stencil items into, the “white part” completely disappeared and was left with no canvas at all.
So, I kept clicking on/off the auto-size box, as well as adjusting the other parameters until I was ready to open a vein. Finally, I just deleted the entire file and created a new one with the above settings and then it worked as expected.
I have no idea what I did to create the scenario I described, but now it’s working as you describe. If I wanted to “learn to love” the infinite canvas, what happens when I am ready to print? It looks like I have to remove/drag back elements to make them fit, disable auto-size and click canvas size buttons for 1 page in each direction. I’ll keep playing around with this.