Edraw Max

Edraw provides you a versatile, easy, quick and professional solution to let you enjoy your working. In a corporate environment, the folks over in human resources need to be able to create organizational charts, some business presentations, and maybe some directional maps and building floor plans to guide visitors through the facility. But, in the same company, the programmers and engineers also need software that lets them build UML diagrams, workflows, program structures, web design diagrams, electrical engineering diagrams, and database diagrams.

What's the solution? Buy one graphics program that suits one group but forces the other to compromise and make do? Or purchase two separate graphics programs for each department's special needs and hope that your company approves the purchase? What about none of the above?

Edraw Max lets you create charts and diagrams to suit all of these requirements and much more. With over 4600 included vector symbols and an extensive library of pre-drawn illustrations, you'll never have to purchase another graphics program ever again!

If you are familiar with the Microsoft Office environment, you'll pick up Edraw Max in no time flat. Using templates, shapes, and drawing tools, you'll be able to intuitively build charts and diagrams that convey information more effectively than ever before. Using a drag-and-drop design technique, combined with automatic alignment and your choice of colors, fonts, and styles, building your diagrams in Edraw Max is quick and easy.

The best thing about Edraw Max is its flexibility. You can import existing Visio XML files, as well as a variety of graphics formats, and the projects that you create in Edraw Max can be exported in any graphics format, printed with full WYSIWYG support, or even shared with others as a standalone executable file. You can even link diagrams to underlying data to provide even more detailed information to your audience.

The Edraw Max developers never rest, and as a result, the application has been continuously improved by software updates which have made the program faster than ever before, with new support for printing and exporting large documents.

Why Choose Edraw Max

1. Use the diagramming software that best maps to what you know and where you're headed.

2. Fully vector-based graphic software, which facilitates the rapid creation of flowcharts, organizational charts, network diagrams and more.

3. Supports to import the exist Visio XML file perfectly.

4. Just drag the build-in shapes from the library pane and drop them on your page. Drawing couldn't be easier!

5. Creates professional-looking diagrams quickly with themes, effects and quick styles.

6. Gain greater productivity in diagramming with features like automatically aligns and arranges all shapes.

7. Includes lots of high-quality shapes, examples and templates.

8. Distinct colors, fonts, shapes, styles, pictures, text, and symbols are available for each diagram object.

9. Easily visualize complex information with a wide range of diagrams. Make those diagrams even smarter and more useful by linking them to underlying data, which provides a more complete picture of the system or process.

10. Works with MS Office well. It can be integrated with Microsoft Office application easily. The UI is MS Office-style like, it's easy to learn and use. If you are familiar with MS Office, you are familiar with Edraw quickly.

11. Generics graphic formats support and WYSIWYG printing.

New Features

• The UI is MS Office 2010 style like. Full ribbon features.

• Added Themes, Color Themes, Effects and Fonts. Easy to change the whole diagram by changing the active theme. With the new Theme feature, you can format the colors and effects in an entire diagram with a single click.

• Real-time previews. When you scroll over the various galleries in Edraw, you'll see your drawings and various objects change to display what they'll look like if you decide to apply those settings. Just click on the thumbnail in the gallery to actually accept the changes. This makes it a lot faster to see, for example, how changing a color scheme will affect your drawings.

• Quick layouts and quick styles. These provide quick formatting options for the object in question, and make it easy to create good-looking slides with just a few clicks.

• Put Edraw graphics into Word, Excel, PowerPoint with one-click buttons.

• Text objects supported line space, bullet, Indent, back color, super script, sub script and more.

• Shadows in general are so very nice compared to those in previous versions. We can actually control the transparency, amount of blur, and color now.

• Shape and text presets make it really easy to apply a preset look to an object or text.

• It's quicker to zoom in and out now using the zoom slider in the southeast corner of the screen.

• Table support.

• Recolor picture, Light and Contrast, transparent PNG support.

• Opened the Shape Sheet for senior users to create more complicated shapes.

• More 2000 clip arts.

• Improved the Insert Hyperlink function.

• Improved the Print function. Support more page sizes such as A0, A1. You can also print the large size graphics in separate pages.

• Persistent undo and redo.

• High quality graphic export. Easy to create SVG graphics.

Vector-based

Edraw Max is a vector-based diagramming software, which means whatever size you change the diagram, it will always keep high quality.

Easy and friendly UI

Edraw UI is MS Office-style like, it's easy to learn and use. If you are familiar with MS Office, you are familiar with Edraw quickly.

Work with MS Office well

Edraw provides several ways to cooperate with MS Office system.

You can copy the selected shapes then paste it into MS Office document.

You can insert the Edraw OLE object in MS Office application.

You also can export the drawings to generics graphic formats such as jpg, tif, bmp. Then switch to MS Office and insert the picture.

Support almost all kinds of graphics formats

Supports almost all the generics graphics formats, it can export or import those common graphics formats, like bmp, gif, dib, png, tif, wmf, emf, html and so on.

Save as exe file and share it with anyone without Edraw

You can save your drawing file to exe format and share it with anyone you want, even it has no Edraw installed.

Provide drawing tools like Illustrator

Provides a set of drawing tools like Adobe Illustrator, with those tools you can draw your own shapes or change the shapes in library.

Distribute shapes automatically

Edraw can help you align and arrange all shapes automatically, this will speed your working.

Strong style system and plenty of beautiful build-in styles

Edraw has an easy and quick style system, and provides a lot of pre-defined styles, which can help you make your diagram beautiful and personal in short time.

Abundant libraries and templates involving kinds of fields

Provide abundant libraries and templates include flowcharts, organizational charts, build plans, network diagrams and more.

Define and manage your own libraries and templates

You can draw your own shapes and documents save as libraries and templates, and use them as pre-defined libraries and templates.

Edraw System requirement

• Windows® 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 7

• 256 MB of RAM, 20 MB of hard disk space

• Pentium® III, 750MHz processor

• 1,024 x 768 or better monitor resolution

• Mouse and keyboard

Update policy

You are assured of our best quality products and the strongest support. The maintenance update fee is free forever. The major upgrade is freely available within 12 months. Relative to Edraw, other products have the higher price and is expensive to update too.