Integrated Timeline Function between OmniOutline and OmniGraffle

[James Moore]

I believe that it will be possible to use Graffle to render a timeline 
based on data in Outliner. With the new XSLT support in Outliner some 
enterprising person could develop a stylesheet to do this. The problem 
is that Graffle has no notion of time or the significance of the 
relative distances between events so writing changes back out would be 
very difficult.

If any of you folks would like to see an export plugin for Outliner to 
produce timelines in Graffle please send in examples of the Outlines 
you'd be working with. If we have an idea of likely inputs and some 
expected outputs then it's stands a chance of getting done.

-James

Technical Support Engineer
Omni Group




On Jan 12, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Stephen Chakwin wrote:

> This would be a wonderful idea.  I've heard rumors of it as a 
> possibility
> being discussed at the latest Macworld.
>
> I am a member of a legal user group with over 550 members, many of
> whom have been looking for a way to easily generate quality timelines. 
> The
> current software available on the Mac (TimeLiner), while functional, 
> does
> not produce acceptable printouts for use in a trial.  We get inquiries 
> on
> our forum several times a year about acceptable outlining programs and 
> so
> far have not had much to recommend.  A feature like this one would be a
> wonderful addition and might point the way to collateral shared uses 
> for the
> two products.
>
> Stephen
>
>
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