SmartDraw 7.4 Update Offers Free Content and More to Customers: Hundreds of New Floor Plan, Calendar, and Map Templates; New Design Tools; and More

San Diego, Calif. — November 21, 2005 - SmartDraw.com, the leading provider of easy-to-use graphics software, announced today the release of SmartDraw 7.4, a free update for current customers.

SmartDraw 7.4 features hundreds of new templates for floor plans for business, home, and landscape design. Users can now custom-fill furniture symbols and other objects with any color or texture, including new carpet and fabric textures such as leather and other stylish patterns.

In addition, the landscape design section now has its own dedicated content collection, with dozens of new templates and symbols. Users can custom-fill objects with photo-realistic textures such as flowers, grass, or water…even koi for the pond.

Also new to the release is a completely revamped calendar section, including calendar templates. A new "Show Me" movie helps first-time users make polished-looking calendars from scratch.

The SmartDraw 7.4 release also features new "Maps" templates representing all corners of the globe, from Bolivia to the Baltic Sea, from Sri Lanka to the South Pole. Now it's even easier to mark borders, map political campaigns, create educational materials, and plan vacations.

Finally, inserting SmartDraw diagrams into Word^®, Excel^®, and PowerPoint^® got even easier. In previous editions, moving SmartDraw designs into office applications was done with a simple copy and paste. But the 7.4 update features new button transfers that insert SmartDraw documents into Word^®, Excel^®, and PowerPoint^® (in just one click. Additionally users may now also save their SmartDraw designs as PDFs with one click.

As always, SmartDraw helps users create professional flowcharts, org charts, Gantt charts, mechanical and software diagrams, floor plans, calendars-and virtually any other drawing or diagram-in just a few minutes. By accessing more than 63,000 symbols and dragging and dropping them onto more than 1,200 templates, even first-timers can enjoy eye-catching, effective, and expert results. And SmartDraw's specialized wizards walk users through selecting a template, editing text and fields, adding graphics, printing, and even adding photos.

SmartDraw works hand-in-hand with Microsoft Office^® and many other programs and products people use every day. The major commands and functions within programs such as Word^®, Excel^®, and PowerPoint^® also work in virtually the same way in SmartDraw: copy and paste, drag and drop, and more.

SmartDraw.com continues to offer free, live, 24-hour tech support. SmartDraw software is available online for a free trial download at www.smartdraw.com.

About SmartDraw.com
Founded in 1994, SmartDraw.com is the creator of SmartDraw, the world's most popular business graphics software. SmartDraw allows anyone to create professional-quality business graphics in minutes - no experience or training required. The Company is the leader in the emerging "Personal Productivity Graphics" market. This market is made up of ordinary computer users who want to create attractive and effective business graphics, but don't have the expertise to use software designed for graphics professionals. In mid 2006, SmartDraw.com surpassed the ten millionth download of SmartDraw. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, SmartDraw.com is privately-held and counts more than half the Fortune 500 among its customers. To download a free trial of SmartDraw, please visit: www.smartdraw.com.

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