Menu commands
OmniGraphSketcher’s menus are jam-cram-packed with useful commands for working on your graphs. Here’s a list of what they all do.
OmniGraphSketcher Menu About OmniGraphSketcher — A little bit of information about the application. Useful for double-checking exactly which version you’re using.
Buy OmniGraphSketcher — This menu item only appears if you haven’t licensed OmniGraphSketcher; choose it to visit the Omni Store on the web. Buying OmniGraphSketcher keeps our larder full, so we can continue to hand-craft fine software for you.
Check for Updates — See if there is a new version of OmniGraphSketcher available to download. You can also set up automatic checking in the Update preferences.
Preferences — Open the OmniGraphSetcher Update preferences. (That’s right, there aren’t any other preferences to set!)
Licenses — Open the Licenses window, where you can add OmniGraphSketcher licenses you’ve bought, or check your existing licenses.
Services — Access system-wide Mac OS X services offered by other applications.
Hide OmniGraphSketcher — Temporarily hide all of OmniGraphSketcher’s windows.
Hide Others — Temporarily hide windows of all other applications so you can concentrate on OmniGraphSketcher.
Show All — Show all windows of all open applications.
Quit OmniGraphSketcher — Stop using OmniGraphSketcher, at least until its siren song lures you back. If you have any unsaved graphs open, you are asked to save or abandon them.
File New — Start a brand new graph, using your default styles (see Make Current Styles Default, below).
Open — Choose an existing OmniGraphSketcher document to work on.
Open Recent — Choose from a list of the last few graphs you opened, for convenience.
Close — Close the frontmost OmniGraphSketcher document. If it has unsaved changes, you are asked to save or abandon them.
Save — Write the current state of the graph document to the disk.
Save As — Write the current state of the graph document to the disk as a different file, leaving the current file as it is. Any further changes that you save apply to the new file.
Revert — Cancel any unsaved changes and go back to the last saved version of the graph document.
Make Current Styles Default — Save the graph’s axis styles, new line and point styles, font styles, and canvas styles to be used for all new graphs you make.
Import — This isn’t a real command! It’s just there to let you know that the best way to import data into OmniGraphSketcher is to copy and paste it.
Export — Choose from a submenu of the three types of image you can export your graph as.
Page Setup — Use the standard Mac Page Setup panel to configure the paper size, scale, and dimensions to use when printing or when exporting the graph to PDF.
Print — Use the standard Mac Print panel to render your graph on real physical paper, if you are into that kind of thing.
Edit Undo — Take back the last change you made to the graph. You can keep stepping backward through all of the changes you’ve made since opening the document.
Redo — Un-take-back the last change you took back. You can keep stepping forward through all of the changes you’ve undone.
Cut — Remove the selected objects from the graph and put them on the clipboard so that you can paste them somewhere.
Copy — Put a copy of the selected objects on the clipboard, so you can paste them somewhere.
Copy Graph as Image — Put a PDF version of the graph on the clipboard, so you can easily paste it into another application. There’s also a handy toolbar button for this.
Paste — Put the contents of the clipboard on the graph. You can do some clever things with data copied from other applications; see the Importing section for details.
Paste as Line — If the clipboard contains rows of data from a spreadsheet or a text file that OmniGraphSketcher can understand, save yourself a step and paste them as points already connected by a line.
Delete — Expunge the selected objects from existence.
Select All — Quickly select all of the data on the graph: points, lines, fills, and ordinary labels, but not the axes, axis labels, or tick labels. Or, select only the points, the lines, or the labels.
Select Connected — Select all of the objects that are attached to the selected objects. Or, select only the points, lines, or labels that are connected.
Deselect All — Select nothing at all.
Line — Just like in the Style inspector, you can choose to connect the selected points with a curved, straight, or best-fit line, or to disconnect them.
Font — This submenu contains standard commands for changing the appearance of the selected text. It works on any text you can select in your graph, and is handy for reproducing mathematical contrivances like superscripts and subscripts.
Spelling — This submenu contains the standard Spelling commands for the Mac OS X spell checking system: Spelling (which opens the Spelling window), Check Spelling (which checks spelling in the document once), and Check Spelling As You Type (which turns the automatic spell checking on or off).
Special Characters — Open the Mac OS X Character Palette, where you can find characters not easily accessible from the keyboard, like ☤ and ☕.
View Scale to Fit Data — Adjust the axis ranges so that the graph’s data points fit snugly with the size of the window. Also available as a toolbar button.
Swap Axes — Switch the x and y values of all of your data points, and switch the axis labels.
Show Grid — Make the grid visible or invisible. You can customize the appearance of the grid with the Axes inspector. Also available as a toolbar button.
Show/Hide Toolbar — Make the toolbar visible or invisible.
Customize Toolbar — Open the standard panel for changing the contents and appearance of the toolbar that appears on all graph windows. Several useful menu commands are available as buttons that you can add to your own toolbar.
Arrange Snap to Grid — Turn on or turn off the blue guides that OmniGraphSketcher offers to keep your drawing neat and aligned.
Group/Ungroup — Collect the selected objects as a group, or disband the selected group. Also available as a toolbar button.
Lock/Unlock Position — Lock the selected objects to stop them from being moved, or allow locked objects to be moved again. Also available as a toolbar button.
Detach — For any selected objects that are attached to another object, stop sharing the attached points and allow the objects to move independently.
Inspectors Show/Hide Inspectors — Summon up the inspector window, or put it away.
Reset Inspector Locations — This is just in case your inspector window somehow ends up in a weird offscreen location and you need to get it back.
Style, Axes, Canvas, Data Points — Switch to the corresponding section of the inspector window.
Window Minimize — Shrink the frontmost window down into the Dock.
Select Tool — Switch to a particular tool; these commands are provided mainly for the convenience assigning them custom keyboard shortcuts in System Preferences.
Bring All to Front — Get all of the OmniGraphSketcher windows up in front of other applications’ windows.
At the bottom of the Window menu is a list of all of your OmniGraphSketcher document windows; choose one to bring it to the front.