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Complete graphics editor for drawings, maps, blueprints, illustrations and web graphics.
When working in Photo Draw, you have no limits on your creativity.
Draw 5 offers a wide range of tools for drawing even the most complex of documents, illustrations, and other graphics, to help you achieve truly professional results.
Graphics for a Wide Range of Uses
An ideal tool for creating graphical documents such as greeting cards, flyers, illustrated price lists, letterheads, price tags, envelopes, greeting cards, new years' greetings, and more. This includes an advanced text tool, comprehensive barcode support, a broad range of options for printing, including dynamically generated documents and calendars. You can easily add bitmap and vector clip art to a drawing using the clip art gallery. And you can export to the universal PDF format.
Illustrations and Graphic Design
Tools for creative illustrations, logos, presentation graphics, etc.: geometric shapes, including pre-defined polygons, advanced curve editing, a variety of fill types, from ordinary solid fills to frills like fractal fills and fountain fills (six types), customizable pen styles, object transparency, work with text, boolean operations on objects, and other advanced vector graphics tools.
Maps and Charts
Everything you need for creating floor plans, marketing diagrams, process diagrams, and more: transformations, alignment, size unification, a grid with customizable density, guidelines, pen styles, and fills. Simple export; support for very large documents ("billboard printing")
Web Graphics
Draw 5 is a popular tool for preparing a variety of Web graphics. All of the objects you create can easily be exported to a bitmap format, and during export, you can preview your work in a preview pane and set options such as anti-aliasing, JPEG compression, and more. Also important for web designers is the option of using pixels as a drawing's unit of measurement. Graphics exported from Draw 5 an be "put into motion" using GIF Animator, which is included with every purchase of Draw 5 as a free bonus.
ToolsWorking with Text and Images
- Drawing and editing of squares, rectangles, circles, ellipses, regular polygons, and numerous types of stars
- Artistic and paragraph text, editing right inside of a document, fitting of text to curves
- Barcoding tool
- Table drawing tool
- Blends between objects, including combined objects
- Conversion of objects into basic curves
- Creation of new objects from multiple existing ones using Boolean operations: intersection, trimming, welding, and combining
- Multiple copying - both "linear" (along a grid) and along a curve of your choice
- Functions for aligning and distributing objects and unifying their sizes
- Both visual and numerical transformations
Work with Curves and with Pen Styles
- drawing and editing of lines, Bézier curves, and freehand curves
- solid and dashed lines, calligraphic pen
- definable line width, type, corners, and endings ("arrows")
Document Formats
- work with layers: customizable names, visibility, etc.; individual layers can be edited and printed separately
- multi-page documents, master pages
- large documents can be printed using billboard printing
- maximum document size: 40.3 × 28.5 meters (about 44 × 31 yards)
- supported measurement units: centimeters, millimeters, points, picas, and pixels
- guidelines and grid, including snap-to-grid option
Data Import / Export
- import of vector and metafile formats: AI 7, EPS, PS, CDR 8, CMX 7, CGM, DRW, DSF, WMF, EMF, DXF 13, DWG 13, PLT, HGL, ZBR, ZMF, ZCL and ZMP
- import of bitmap formats: PCX, GIF (including transparency), TIF, WPG, MAC, TGA, ICO, BMP, RLE, PCD, JPG, PNG, BMI, DIB, PSP, PSD, CRW, ORF, NEF, MRW, RAW, THM and ZMP
- export of vector and metafile formats: WMF, EMF, DXF, AI, EPS, PDF, HGL and PLT
- export of bitmap formats: PCX, GIF, TIF, WPG, TGA, BMP, JPG, PNG and BMI
Imported Bitmap Objects
- an integrated advanced editor for editing the bitmaps in a document, with features on par with Photo Studio 7 Professional
- transparency mask tool
- support for standard Adobe plug-in filters
Other Features
- customizable palette with colors defined using any of the four major color models: RGB, CMYK, HSB or HSL
- fountain fills: solid, linear, conical, radial, rectangular, cross-shaped, flexible, and bitmap
- transparency: solid, linear, conical, radial, rectangular, cross-shaped, fractal, and bitmap
- shadows: colored, based on object brightness, transparent, and soft
- panning, views manager, document navigation features including mouse-wheel zooming
New Features in Version 5New Options for Working with Bitmap-type Objects
- an integrated advanced editor for editing bitmaps placed in a document, with features on par with Photo Studio Professional
- import of new bitmap formats (PSP, PSD, and RAW)
- new methods for importing bitmaps: bitmap stretching, placing, and cropping
New Options for Printing and Export
- full-featured, built-in export of documents to PDF (more pages; fonts can be embedded; curves are preserved; wide range of settings available)
- expanded printing; includes dynamic print jobs: template-based, calendars, contact sheets, and paper saver (printing optimized to fit a given set of images into the minimum possible space)
- editing of print jobs assembled in Photo Studio 6 or 7
- detailed preview of results when exporting to a bitmap
- option to reduce DPI when printing bitmaps
Other New Features
- new tutorials gallery
- increased speed for Clip Art gallery, and higher-quality previews
- launching directly from Photo Studio
- new welcome dialog that helps you open and create documents right when starting Draw 5
- new sample documents
System requirements:
OS: WindowsTM 98/ME/2000/XP
Processor: Pentium or equivalent 300 MHz or higher
Memory: 64 MB RAM
HDD: 70+ MB of free disk space
Resolution: 800 x 600 High Color (1024 x 768 recommended)
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or higher must be installed for certain features to work correctly
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