Black Hole Graphics Software

SuperDraw Icon SuperDraw 4.0
A Powerful and Easy-to-Use Graphics Program for Creating Business Graphics, Diagrams, Illustrations, Layouts, and Presentations

Simple and Intuitive

SuperDraw lets you draw any object easily, including rectangles, squares, ellipses, circles, polygons, stars, arrows, arcs, lines, pie sections, curved paths, connected lines, and rounded rectangles. SuperDraw lets you drag and drop colors, images, patterns, and styles directly onto any text, graphic, or page.

Advanced Capabilities

SuperDraw lets you resize, rotate, scale, and skew any text, graphic, or scanned image. You can also group, blend, join, union, and clip objects together. In addition, you can add neon, fadeaway, and shadow effects to any text or graphic. For precision placement, SuperDraw lets you align objects to a grid or snap objects to a guide. SuperDraw also provides sound buttons, action buttons, and support for object links to other applications.

Multiple Layers and Pages

SuperDraw lets you work with multiple layers and with any number of pages in a document. You can also cut, copy, and paste any layer or page from one document to another. SuperDraw lets you zoom from 1% to 6400% for detailed editing, and you can edit objects directly even in reduced and thumbnail views.

Templates and Palettes

SuperDraw provides customizable template and palette libraries, including sample templates for address labels, business cards, disk labels, shipping labels, and calendar. SuperDraw also includes sample palettes for creating flowcharts, network diagrams, and organizational charts.

Absolutely Smooth Text and Graphics

SuperDraw includes a built-in anti-alias module for producing TIFF files with absolutely smooth text and graphics. (Some sample images which were produced using this module are shown below.) This anti-alias feature is a "must have" for anyone doing multimedia development or creating World Wide Web pages.

Features

SuperDraw 4.0 includes many new features and improvements including a new tints panel, floating rulers, distribute command, zoom preferences, GIF/JPEG import, and the capability to save TIFF files with many advanced options.

SuperDraw lets you draw any object easily

ｷ Rectangles and squares
ｷ Ellipses and circles
ｷ Polygons
ｷ Stars
ｷ Arrows
ｷ Arcs and lines
ｷ Pie sections
ｷ Curved paths
ｷ Connected lines
ｷ Rounded rectangles

SuperDraw lets you fill objects with any color or pattern

ｷ Drag and drop a color into any text or graphic
ｷ Fill any text or graphic with a linear or radial gradient
ｷ Fill any text or graphic with a custom TIFF or EPS pattern
ｷ Fill any text or graphic with a translucent color or pattern
ｷ Import and export custom TIFF and EPS patterns

SuperDraw has great special effects

ｷ Add neon effects to any text or graphic
ｷ Add fadeaway effects to any text or graphic
ｷ Add shadow effects to any text or graphic
ｷ Drag and drop a custom dash pattern on any text or graphic
ｷ Drag and drop a custom style on any text or graphic

SuperDraw lets you resize, rotate, and scale any object

ｷ Resize, rotate, scale, and skew any text, graphic, or image
ｷ Rotate and scale any object in .001 increments
ｷ Set custom rotation, scaling, and skewing increments
ｷ Flip objects vertically or horizontally

SuperDraw lets you group, blend, and join objects together

ｷ Group, blend, join, union, and clip objects together
ｷ Edit objects inside a group by double-clicking
ｷ Duplicate objects without using the clipboard
ｷ Drag and drop graphics from a customized palette
ｷ Crop any group of graphics easily

SuperDraw lets you work with images easily

ｷ Drag and drop TIFF and EPS images onto a page
ｷ Crop a scanned image by dragging a knob
ｷ Fill outline shapes with a scanned image
ｷ Move, size, stretch, flip, and rotate scanned images

SuperDraw lets you add text easily

ｷ Add text by simply clicking on a page and typing
ｷ Set font sizes from 4 to 400 points in .001 point increments
ｷ Match printed text exactly using screen font options
ｷ Set, move, and delete tab stops visually on a ruler
ｷ Work with international character sets

SuperDraw lets you reshape any text or graphic

ｷ Convert any text or graphic into an editable path
ｷ Add new nodes by double-clicking
ｷ Add curvature controls by double-clicking
ｷ Reshape any path by moving the curvature controls
ｷ Cut, copy, and paste segments between paths
ｷ Cut any path into smaller paths

SuperDraw lets you align objects to the grid or a guide

ｷ Add a guide by dragging down from a ruler
ｷ Snap objects to a guide for precision placement
ｷ Cut, copy, and paste guides between pages
ｷ Align items to each other or between guides
ｷ Snap objects to a user-definable grid

SuperDraw lets you zoom from 1% to 6400%

ｷ Zoom in on any portion of a page for detailed editing
ｷ Edit objects directly even in reduced and thumbnail views
ｷ Open multiple view windows to different parts of a document
ｷ Zoom from 1% to 6400% in 1% increments

SuperDraw lets you work with multiple layers

ｷ Work with any number of layers in each page
ｷ Cut, copy, and paste layers between pages
ｷ Change the drawing order for individual objects
ｷ Lock and unlock objects individually
ｷ Hide and lock individual layers

SuperDraw lets you work with multiple pages

ｷ Click a button to add any number of new pages
ｷ Select any page by double-clicking
ｷ Cut, copy, and paste pages between documents
ｷ Delete pages easily with the Backspace key

SuperDraw lets you customize the measurement system

ｷ Display rulers in inches, picas, points, or centimeters
ｷ Reposition the origin of the measurement system anywhere
ｷ Use any standard or custom page size up to 1000" by 1000"
ｷ Set a preferred measurement unit for object dimensions
ｷ Convert any measurement to another unit easily

SuperDraw lets you add buttons and sounds to pages

ｷ Import, record, and play sounds using the sound inspector
ｷ Cut, copy, and paste sound segments
ｷ Drag and drop a sound to create a sound button
ｷ Drag and drop an action to create an action button
ｷ Play a multi-page document as a presentation

SuperDraw lets you import and export object links

ｷ Paste an object link from another application
ｷ Drop in an object link from another application
ｷ Paste a link button from another application
ｷ Edit and update object links to other applications
ｷ Export object links to other applications
ｷ Publish a selection as an object link file

SuperDraw lets you save templates, palettes, and images

ｷ Save a document as a reusable template
ｷ Save a document as a palette of drag-and-drop graphics
ｷ Save to an Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) file
ｷ Save to a Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) file
ｷ Save to an Encapsulated Graphic Format (EGF) file

SuperDraw lets you produce smooth anti-aliased images

ｷ Create TIFF files with absolutely smooth text and graphics
ｷ Save TIFF files with LZW or JPEG compression

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Price: COM $295
EDU $245

Platforms:
Yes -

Motorola

Intel

PA-RISC

SPARC

OpenStep Committed

Developer:
Impact Software Publishing, Inc.

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