Shortcut Draw 5, Complete Graphics Editor Software for Drawings, Maps, Blueprints, Illustrations & Web Graphics, for Windows

Shortcut Software Shortcut Draw 5 Features

• Illustrations and Graphic Design: Tools for creative illustrations, logos, presentation graphics, etc.
• 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
• 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
• Working 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, Bezier 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
• 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
• 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 bitmap formats (PSP, PSD and RAW)
• Methods for importing bitmaps: bitmap stretching, placing and cropping
• 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
• Tutorials gallery
• Increased speed for Clip Art gallery and higher-quality previews
• Launching directly from Photo Studio
• Welcome dialog that helps you open and create documents right when starting Draw 5
• Sample documents