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Subject: Art and Design
Level: GCSE/Secondary to A'Level/College
High school classes 10-12
Category: Artistic Drawing
OS: Windows XP, Vista or 7
Media: Download

PenDraw

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PenDraw is a drawing software with a complete selection of sketching tools, formatting options and templates for creating high quality drawings.

  • Vector graphics
  • High precision and accuracy
  • Practical and easy to use
  • Automatic sketching of a completed drawing
  • Animation
  • Multi-document and multi-page
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Example Applications

  • Landscapes
  • Portraits
  • Greeting cards
  • Cartoon pictures
  • Clothes and textile designs
  • Web graphics
  • 2D and 3D geometric shapes
  • Science diagrams

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Features

  • Drawing tools: Freehand, smooth freehand, polygon, interpolating spline curve, Bezier curve.
  • Basic shapes: Line, arrow, rectangle, square, ellipse, circle and arc.
  • Rotation: Rotate shapes by using the mouse or typing a specific angle.
  • Size and Position: Define the exact size, position and rotation angle of a shape.
  • Arrangement tools: Aligning, sizing, spacing evenly, flipping and object layer ordering.
  • Grid and rulers.
  • Group: Combine several shapes together.
  • Zooming: View drawings at a larger or smaller scale.
  • Text: Apply fonts, colours, gradient fills, rotation, sizing etc.
  • The Gallery - Ready-made shapes, including geometrical and decorative shapes and flowchart and circuit symbols. Also contains template designs and page borders, covering several categories.
  • Gradient Fills - Smooth colourful gradient fills.
  • Transparency - Sparkling realistic effects.
  • Freehand Sketching - Automatically smoothen sharp edges in a freehand shape.
  • Digital photos and other pictures - Include pictures saved in formats such as BMP and JPEG.
  • Snap To Endpoints and Grid  - Automatically snap the cursor to the grid or to the vertices of shapes, making it easier to draw accurate diagrams.
  • Printing - High quality printing, with several options.
  • Using drawings in other applications - Save your drawings in other image formats such as BMP, JPEG or WMF. You can then import them into your word processor or other application.
  • Interface - Simple to use and organised interface.
  • Help - Full online help, with easy to follow steps.

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AutoDraw

Animate the step-by-step construction of your drawings using the AutoDraw feature.

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Animations

Easily create your own frame-based animations within PenDraw, and export them as Animated GIFs for inclusion in web pages.

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