SmartDraw Drawing Software
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SmartDraw's point-and-click drawing method makes it easy for anyone
familiar with basic computer tasks to easily create professional-quality business
graphics. It all begins with a professionally designed SmartTemplate�. Choose one,
and SmartDraw opens a SmartPanel� with six single-click buttons - all you'll need
to complete your drawing. And, our SmartHelp� step-by-step guide follows your actions
and is ready with answers, just in case. It's that simple.
With SmartPanels� you can complete your drawings in minutes
System Requirements
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Ease of Use
Here's what makes SmartDraw easy to use:
- Next generation, easy-to-use ribbon-style user interface (with optional
traditional menu bar)
- SmartTemplates with context-sensitive help - get the help you need, when
you need it, automatically!
- SmartPanel allows one-click access to six buttons specific to what you're
drawing
- Thousands of example drawings - which you may customize and make your own!
- Over 20,000 shapes and symbols to simply click and drop into your drawing
- Transfer your drawing to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect and Adobe
PDF - with one simple click
- Automatic text formatting as you type, with built-in spell check
- Automatic linking - just drop shapes near each other and they automatically
line up and link!
- Automatically create calendars, Gantt charts and timelines. Set a date range,
SmartDraw does the rest!
- Auto Flow automatically draws connecting lines between shapes
- Org Chart Builder takes your properly formatted file and automatically builds
the appropriate chart
- Imports and exports from all commonly used file formats
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Symbols and Shapes
- Over 20,000 shapes and symbols to simply click and drop into your drawing
- Copy and paste your own symbols, icons, and clip art
- Size and move symbols with the mouse
- Automatically make selected symbols the same height, width, or both
- Automatically align symbols, shapes, and lines
- Automatically space symbols, shapes, and groups of symbols and shapes evenly
- Rotate and flip symbols, lines, and text by any angle
- Combine symbols into groups and then un-group them again
- Connect symbols with lines that stay connected, even when you move or resize
them
- Join lines and curves into new fill-able symbols
- Change the color or fill texture of your symbols
- Create your own fill textures from a metafile or bitmap
- Apply colors and graphic effects to entire drawings for a professional finish
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Drawing Tools
- Auto Flow automatically inserts connecting lines between shapes. Just drag
a symbol next to another symbol and a segmented line automatically and perfectly
connects the two shapes
- Area Calculation lets you see the exact area of a shape as you draw it,
with the measurements scaling up and down as you change the shape's size in
any way. The dimensions can be viewed all the time or only when a shape is selected
- Automatic Dimensioning lets you view the length of any line, scaled to current
ruler settings, as it's being drawn or after it's been created
- Anti-aliasing ensures smooth curves, lines, and text
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The Drawing Area
- Unlimited drawing area
- The drawing area automatically resizes to fit your drawing
- Simplify complex drawings with layers that can be shown, edited, and hidden
independently
- Move between layers quickly and easily with layer tabs in the program window
- Automatically tile large drawings across multiple printed pages or scale
large drawings onto a single page
- Link a symbol in one drawing to another drawing (or document) to create
drawing hierarchies
- View and edit drawings scaled to fit the window, page, 50%, 75%, 100%, 150%,
200%, 400% or custom scale
- Show or hide ruler
- Zoom into the nooks and crannies of your drawings - just right-click (in)
and left-click (out). You can zoom to 1000% of your drawing size
- Center the whole drawing on one or more pages
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- Choose any line style: straight, arc, segmented, curved, double lines, filled
lines, or create your own. Connect lines to create custom shapes
- Line hops made easy! Lines do not intersect unless you want them to, thanks
to automatic line hops
- Click - let go - click line drawing
- Automatic spacing and sizing of connectors
- Draw dotted, dashed, and filled lines and borders as thick as you want
- Size and move lines with the mouse
- Lines and curves automatically change shape to maintain connections between
shapes
- Change the shape of lines with a simple menu command
- Choose from 46 different arrowhead styles, including circles, crows feet,
diamonds, and other styles
- Connect lines across pages in multi-page drawings
- Attach text to lines
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- Just type! Text automatically formats inside or next to any symbol or shape
- Built-in spell checker can be set to automatically check spelling as you
type, or used separately
- Add words to your custom dictionary
- Symbols automatically grow to accommodate more text, or text shrinks to
fit - it's your choice
- Automatic word wrap within symbols
- Insert popular symbols from a Word-like dialog
- Justify text left, right, centered, or flush
- Rotate text by any angle
- Automatically format bulleted text
- Hyperlink text to other drawings, documents, web pages, or programs
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- Choose from pre-formatted tables
- AutoFill automatically populates header cells with numbers, months, days,
or dates
- Add symbols and photos to cells
- Specify border and background colors for each cell or the whole table
- Join and split cells to create complex tables
- Insert bitmaps in cells, and scale and crop as necessary
- Insert and edit photos within table cells
- Lock graphics to cells so they don't move as you reformat the table
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- FreeForm drawing tool lets you create your own shapes, lines, and arrowheads
- Edit existing symbols to define text placement (inside it, under it, etc.),
where connections can be made to its borders, and how it will resize when stretched
or scaled
- Put what you use most in one convenient location by creating your own symbol
and shape library
- Change the sorting order of symbols in any library
- Create custom connection points to meet your diagramming needs
- Create and store your own custom gradients
- Define and store your own styles
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Colors,
Borders, and Effects
- Change the color of the symbols, lines, and backgrounds within your drawings
- Save time by capturing the style from any object in your drawing and applying
it to others with one mouse-click
- Apply pre-defined themes to your entire drawing, which automatically control
colors, textures, styles, and backgrounds
- Apply colors, border styles, and fill patterns to objects or groups of objects,
including 3-D outside effects
- Apply inside effects which give a raised look to lines, shapes, text, and
borders
- Enrich your table cells, lines, and text with sophisticated gradients
- Add textures-such as tile, brick, etc.-to table cells, lines, and text with
an easy-to-use textures dialog box
- Create and store custom gradients
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- Anything your printer can handle, SmartDraw can output, from standard sizes
to poster prints
- Print to scale
- Scale your drawing by a percentage
- Specify the scale in printed inches per drawing ruler-inch
- Fit the drawing to a fixed number of pages
- Set scaling to a minimum of 1% and a maximum of 1000%
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Free Help and
Support
- Examples provide lots of ideas and Starting points
- Online help for every command
- Free live support - call toll-free and speak to a technical support representative,
6:00AM to 5:00PM Pacific Time Monday through Friday, 8:00AM to 2:00PM Pacific
Time Saturday and Sunday
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- Works seamlessly with all versions of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- move files and data with just a click
- Easily use Microsoft clip art
- Export and import images in popular graphics formats including WMF, BMP,
JPG, GIF, TIF, and many others
- Save your drawings as PDF files for almost universal sharing
- Save your drawings for the web as GIF, JPG, or HTML files - HTML files automatically
have working hyperlinks
- Email a drawing to others in a single click
- Advanced Import/Export Filters: Encapsulated Postscript (EPS), AutoCAD (DXF
and DWG)*, Adobe Illustrator�, Acrobat�, CorelDraw�, and other popular formats
(*Test your files for compatibility with the trial version of SmartDraw. SmartDraw
imports DWG to ACAD 13 and DXF to ACAD 14)
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