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A drawback of many drawing programs is
that they don’t make it easy for you to get started. Not
so with SmartDraw, a friendly and powerful drawing package
for Win 3.1, Win 95 and Win NT. SmartDraw comes with sample
timelines, calendars, logic diagrams, architectural drawings,
plumbing outlines, electrical circuits, flyers and maps
that already contain the symbols most of us want to use.
This isn’t just clip art -- you can cut and paste ready-to-use
symbols from these drawings and have your work done in
a fraction of the time it would take you to do it all
from scratch. SmartDraw also lets you create libraries
of commonly used symbols that you simply drag and drop
from the tool bar or a floating selection box.
SmartDraw provides all the features you expect in a drawing
package, wrapping them up in an easy-to-use interface
with complete online help and hundreds of automatic hints
and tips to get you started. One of its nicest features
lets you scale selected symbols and text by clicking on
a set of plus/minus buttons. SmartDraw can read and write
most of the popular graphics formats (BMP, GIF, JPEG,
PCX, TIFF and Windows Metafile) and can write GIF files
with transparent backgrounds for use on Web pages.
For just $69, SmartDraw is a great addition to any computer
tool box. Hundreds of other sample drawings of different
types are also available for just $19. After 45 days,
this trial version of SmartDraw will display "SmartDraw
Trial Edition" in any drawing you print, save or
import, but I think you’ll be sold long before that.
Bill von Hagen
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