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SmartDraw.com Enhances Express Charts


Business graphics creator adds new controls for customization

By Jeff Feinman
February 15, 2008 — 
Business graphics software creator SmartDraw.com is giving users more flexibility to customize charts and graphs by adding an express charting feature to SmartDraw 2008.2, a tool that automates the creation of business graphics.
SmartDraw 2008.2, released in mid-January, has new charting controls within Express Charts, company officials said. Express Charts, introduced in the initial release of

SmartDraw 2008 in September, allows chart and graph creation without a supporting spreadsheet. The enhancements allow users to alter the granularity of a chart and change where and how the legend is displayed.

“One of the nice features about Express Charting is that you can apply the image as a fill, and users have the ability to assign a value to each image,” said Joshua Platt, director of product marketing for SmartDraw.com. “The images can be stacked, stretched and scaled differently. It gives you more control over how the chart looks.”

The software’s ImageCharts feature, which uses pictures and images instead of bars or lines— for instance, a chart showing bottled water sales can display different sized bottles on a graph— has also been improved. Users can tell SmartDraw exactly how many images they want repeated in each section of the chart, or an image can represent a precise number of units.

The tool now has 1,000 new symbols and more than 100 SmartTemplates to help users manage and run their businesses, according to the company. Platt said that many of the new symbols come from the library of Cisco Systems in the form of routers and network devices. In addition, new keyboard shortcuts can be accessed by a Keytips menu.


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