SmartDraw 2008

Quickly and easily create professional-grade flowcharts, organizational charts, Gantt charts, network diagrams, timelines and more with SmartDraw professional graphics software for business users. No graphics experience or training is required, and SmartDraw works with the most popular Office programs - Word, PowerPoint, Excel and more.

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Creating the right business graphic is as easy as 1, 2, 3!

1. Pick
Pick a template. There are over 150 professionally designed SmartTemplates, so it's easy to look like an expert!

2. Drag
Drag shapes, lines, and symbols to where you need them. Choose from a library of over 20,000 standard symbols and shapes.

3. Add
Add text and you're done! Just type, save, print. Or, copy into other programs with one click.

Features:

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

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

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

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

Drawing Bar

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

Lines

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

Line Type

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

Text

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

Text Tab

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

Tables

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

Customization

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

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

Printing

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%

Compatibility

Works seamlessly with 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)

System Requirements:

Windows 2000 or XP