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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Smartdraw 2007 - Personal Design Graphics Software for Business

SmartDraw 2007 makes it possible for people who don't know design technic to create a compelling business graphics like Organizational Charts, Flow charts, Maps, Floor Plans, Gantt Charts, Timelines, Office Layouts, Concept Maps and Sales Territory Maps.


SmartDraw 2007 is built to Work Easily with Other Programs. Just one click and you can Put SmartDraw graphics into Ms Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and WordPerfect or you can save your drawing in Adobe PDF format.

Everyday more than 6.000 people install SmartDraw Design Software and more than 10 million users have downloaded SmartDraw.

If you are a general business users, SmartDraw 2007 is the choice for creating more than 33 types of charts and diagrams, including flowcharts, Gantt charts, timelines, organizational charts, calendars, flyers, floor plans and technical diagrams.

In addition, SmartDraw 2007 is available in two industry-specific solutions: SmartDraw 2007 Legal Edition and SmartDraw 2007 Healthcare Edition. Each edition includes all the SmartDraw 2007 features and functions plus industry specific SmartTemplates, examples, symbols and SmartHelp.

SmartDraw 2007 features dramatically improved graphics capability, with professionally designed gradients, textures, effects, styles, and themes. New SmartTemplates make you an instant expert in drawing 33 of the most-needed charts and diagrams, even if you've never seen one before.

With SmartDraw's point-and-click drawing method makes it easy for anyone familiar with basic computer tasks to create a 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.


FEATURES

Ease of Use
  • 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!
  • 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
  • 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
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
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
Colors, Borders, and Effects
  • 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%
Tablet PC
  • SmartDraw 8.1 supports pen computing with both ink and handwriting recognition.
  • SmartDraw brings a whole new dimension to Tablet PC's allowing you to take notes graphically on the go. Using the pen you can stamp shapes and draw lines onto the page just as you do with a mouse, then you can annotate them with ink and enter text with handwriting.
  • Stamp ShapeDraw LinesAnnotate with Ink
Ink Tab

The ink can show on any PC, even those not running a pen-enabled OS, and there is a full compliment of choices for inking.

Free Help and Support
  • Examples provide lots of ideas and starting points
  • Online help for every command
  • Free live support
Compatibility
  • Works seamlessly with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint - move files and data with just a click
  • Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • 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

SmartDraw 2007 run in Windows XP, 2000 or Windows Vista. Only SmartDraw 2007 is fully compatible with Windows Vista. Smartdraw 7 and older versions of SmartDraw are not.

If you're upgrading your system to Windows Vista 2007, it's recommend you also upgrade to SmartDraw 2007.


Download and Price

Try this design software before you buy. The price of 1 user is $US 197 and if you are a design company it's good to order big edition with 10 users for $US 1495.

Download free free trial of Smartdraw 2007 at the main site of smartdraw.com. When you asked to Run, Open or Save the file, choose Run or Open if those options are offered. SmartDraw will then install automatically.

You can download the latest update for Free if you are a Smartdraw 2007 user.

And if you have the old version of Smartdraw, you can upgrade it to 2007 version just for $US 30.


SmartDraw.com - Corporate Profile

Founded in 1994, SmartDraw.com is the creator of SmartDraw, the World's Most Popular Business Graphics Software. SmartDraw makes it easy for anyone to create professional-quality business graphics such as flowcharts, organizational charts, Gantt charts, timelines, floor plans and more in minutes - no experience or training required.

Privately held by founders and employees. Financially self-sustaining and profitable since inception.

The SmartDraw.com website is one of the most frequently visited websites on the Internet. Each month, the website receives over 2 million visitors. More than 10 million people have downloaded SmartDraw.

Paul Stannard founded SmartDraw.com in 1994 to develop and sell business graphics software over the Internet. The company received its first order less than 12 hours after opening for business. On the strength of the product, with no outside funding, the company has grown rapidly to become the provider of the world's most popular business graphics software.

SmartDraw.com is the leader in the rapidly growing Personal Productivity Graphics market that is made up of the millions of ordinary computer users who want to create attractive and effective business graphics, but don't have the expertise to use software designed for graphics professionals.

SmartDraw enables users to create flowcharts, organizational charts, floor plans, calendars, timelines, flyers and other business graphics.

SmartDraw Legal Edition is designed to help attorneys, law students and professors, investigators and law enforcement personnel create charts, diagrams and timelines for courtroom exhibits, accident reconstruction diagrams, crime scenes, mediation charts and more.

SmartDraw Healthcare Edition is designed to help healthcare professionals create patient handouts, dissertations, reports, presentations, staff education materials and more.

SmartDraw CEMM Edition meets the specific needs of CEMM™ and business process management practitioners.

The key to SmartDraw's success is its unique SmartTemplate™ technology that makes creating business graphics as easy as typing a letter with a word processor. SmartDraw has developed hundreds of SmartTemplates for every type of business graphic. Each SmartTemplate loads a diagram specific SmartPanel™ command set and the associated SmartHelp™ step-by-step instructions. By using a SmartTemplate, a user becomes an instant expert on how to make a complex diagram and with SmartDraw's gallery of professionally designed styles, an instant graphic designer too.

Over half of the Fortune 500 companies, and representative clients such as the U.S. Department of Justice, Coca-Cola Beverages, Hewlett-Packard, Kent State University, Nike, Nortech International, Phillips 66, the U.S. Bureau of Census, and many more.

In August 6, 2007, SmartDraw.com, creator of SmartDraw® announced that Seismic Exchange, Inc. has selected SmartDraw software to create project schedules, organization charts and calendars. SmartDraw will be used by more than 20 employees at the company's headquarters in Houston, Texas.

Seismic Exchange is a full-service 2D and 3D seismic data marketing firm that owns more than 1,745,000 miles of domestic proprietary data. According to Kim Human, IT and 3D Services Manager, the organization was originally using SmartDraw on a small-scale basis to create various business diagrams. The charts and diagrams created in SmartDraw were so well-received that employees in accounting, administration, marketing, and operations requested additional licenses.






General Information

SmartDraw.com
9909 Mira Mesa Blvd., Suite 300
San Diego, CA 92131
Phone: 800-768-3729 (toll-free)
Phone: 858-225-3300
Fax: 858-225-3390


Source and Images : http://www.smartdraw.com

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