StarOffice 8

StarOffice 8 Draw

StarOffice Draw delivers a collection of powerful, easy-to-use illustration tools that can have a dramatic impact on your documents—and your audience.

Express Yourself Graphically

Layout Tools
You don't have to be a studio art director to do dramatic graphic layouts. With StarOffice Draw, curiosity and imagination are enough. You visual layout toys include grids, guides, rulers, snap-to, position, and sizing tools. They let you think graphically rather than grapple with technology.

Vector Graphics & AutoShapes
Let's get fancy. StarOffice Draw puts advanced vector graphics at your fingertips. Choose from 87 different AutoShapes, with shape-adjustment handlers, 3-D options, and gads of "fill and shading" tools for subtle nuance that makes the difference.

Colors, Textures & Shading
Start slow. Begin with the standard palette. Then, the sky's the limit. You can customize colors, gradients, textures, transparency, bitmaps, and shadows. It's all the fun of art school, and your presentations will look like you were in business school.

FontWork
The Fontwork tool helps you design 2-D and 3-D fonts with flexible curves, shading, and color-fill options.

3D Objects
Create simple 3-D objects such as cubes, spheres, and cylinders in Draw, and even modify the light source of the objects.

Merge Graphics
Combine any shape, whether 3-D vector or 2-D raster, with others in a variety of ways.

Connectors
StarOffice Draw uses connectors to connect objects in flow charts, organizational diagrams, and more. Connectors attach to glue points on drawing objects, and stay attached to objects, even when you move them.

Gallery
Enrich your drawings and other StarOffice files with images, animations, and sounds.

Export & Share Your Drawings

Flexible Graphic File Formats
You won't be locked out. StarOffice Draw exports files in all the common graphic file formats, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, SVG, WMF, EPS, and more.

Portable Document Format (.pdf)
StarOffice's PDF publishing features make sure nothing gets lost in the translation. StarOffice now supports PDF bookmarks, hyperlinks, thumbnail images, and form elements.

Publishing in Flash (.swf)
StarOffice Draw also lets you export your presentations as Macromedia Flash files with dramatic appeal.