Automatic Flowcharting
Build flowcharts by clicking simple commands, rather than manually arranging and connecting shapes on the page. Lines are drawn automatically, and formatting is automatic with shapes evenly spaced and perfectly aligned.
Automatic Business Graphics of all Kinds
SmartDraw includes hundreds of specialized SmartTemplates to automate the creation of every type of diagram, including: organization charts, project charts, decision trees, cause-effect diagrams, genograms, and more.
Instant Graphic Design
A professionally-designed graphic theme, specifying colors, line and type style, is automatically applied to each graphic. Select and change the theme with a single click.
Express Charting
Create charts and graphs without having to make a spreadsheet first. Simply pick a chart and type your data directly into the bars. You can even drag the bars to represent the right values.
Chartoons
Use pictures and images to display your information instead of standard bars, lines and circles. Create a Chartoon in seconds by dragging any image—even a photo—onto your chart, and watch your data come alive.
Live Maps
Live Maps capture live data from the Internet allowing you to incorporate roads, regions, counties, zip codes, countries and even satellite images from across the globe into their illustrations—all as separate, editable elements.
Integrated Photo Capability
Built-in photo-software functionality allows you to import images directly from your digital camera or other source, crop and scale, adjust color and brightness, and drop them into org charts or any other illustration.
Microsoft Office Interoperability
SmartDraw works seamlessly with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and other Windows programs—copy your illustration into any Office document with a single click.
Express Charts
Now you can create real charts and graphs of every kind, all without having to make a spreadsheet first. Simply pick a chart and type your data directly into the bars. You can even drag the bars to represent the right values. Or, import your data from Excel or other data source.
Chartoons
Use pictures and images to display your information instead of standard bars, lines and circles. Create a Chartoon in seconds by dragging any image—even a photo—onto your chart, and watch your data come alive.
Better Maps with Live Data
Live Maps capture live data from Google Maps allowing you to incorporate roads, regions, counties, zip codes, countries and even satellite images from across the globe into your illustrations—all as separate, editable elements.
Built-In Photo Editing
Integrated photo-software functionality allows you to import images directly from your digital camera or other source, crop and scale, adjust color and brightness, and drop them into org charts or any other illustration.
Capture images of entire web pages, or sections
of web pages right from within SmartDraw Web Page Screen Capture
If it's on the web, it can be in your illustration. Grab images of entire web pages, or sections of web pages right from within SmartDraw. Then edit, crop, transform, and adjusts as needed. It opens up a whole new world of content for your graphics.
New Professional Themes
SmartDraw 2008 includes a library of all new professional design themes. Browse through the selection and change the whole look of your document with a single click.
Enhanced Microsoft-Style Interface
In addition to working seamlessly with Microsoft Office programs, SmartDraw helps you get your work done faster by fully implementing the new ribbon interface introduced in Microsoft Office 2007.
Automatic Org Charting and Flowcharting
Build org and flow charts faster than ever by clicking simple commands, rather than manually arranging and connecting shapes on the page. Lines are drawn automatically, and formatting is automatic with shapes evenly spaced and perfectly aligned. Keyboard shortcuts for all these commands make the process even quicker.
It's Faster
Enjoy more responsive drawing and editing with improved performance in key operations, including faster screen redraw, object moving, panning, and scaling.