ConceptDraw 1.8

ConceptDraw is a powerful cross-platform application for creating professional-looking business and technical drawings and illustrations for your documents quickly and easily. And - you don't need to be an artist or have any drawing experience. The program comes with more than 80 libraries containing over 1700 objects, which allows users to draw all kinds of charts and diagrams - flowcharts, UML diagrams, Website plans, network diagrams, floorplans, timelines, organization charts and many more. ConceptDraw features powerful drawing tools, a text editor and formulas to facilitate definition of various parameters to program behavior of objects. The program supports OLE, HTML, PDF export, is Internet-enabled, and easy-to-use. XML for ConceptDraw format support lets generate a visual document from its textual description, and vice versa, save a full description of the document in simple textual format. ConceptDraw is designed to work on both Mac and PC, so all files (including libraries and templates) created in ConceptDraw can be seamlessly opened across the Windows and Macintosh platforms. "Intelligent" connectors help to visualize thoughts and illustrate complex ideas, automatically adjusting their paths when you reposition objects. Moreover, every object can be turned into a connector. With the ajustable grid and the Snap tool you can work with precision. The Glue tool, guide lines, Alignment and Distribution tools help you accurately align objects,create equal spacings and move several objects at once. You can apply line colors, fill colors, fill and shadow patterns, and gradients to any object in your drawing. Objects also may contain text, which you can edit and format using ConceptDraw's bulit-in text editor. With the Snap tool, you draw accurately and effortlessly grid lines, guide lines or other objects(at your wish) may pull objects so they jump in place. ConceptDraw will import and export a variety of file formats like GIF, JPEG, PICT, EPS, Windows bitmap and metafile, and you can insert hyperlinks into your drawings and assign them to objects to create Internet-ready documents. ConceptDraw is also OLE compatible, and ConceptDraw documents can be inserted into files of any program that supports OLE and vice versa.