B- Spline tool creates B- Spline curves. Context- sensitive Node tool provides control over post- editing objects and nodes. A range of Quick. Shapes which are predefined simple shapes that can be quickly modified with sliders to adjust certain parameters, for example quickly creating rounded rectangles, etc. Shapes include: Rectangles, Ellipses, Stars, Spirals, Cogs, Petals, etc.
Freeform Paint tool creates solid polygons by 'painting' areas. Vector Flood Fill tool fills visible areas. Eraser tool for intuitive object erasing and manipulation. Knife tool to cut through objects leaving them in multiple, editable pieces. HSL, RGB and CMYK colour models. Plus a range of Pantone palettes. Gradient colour picker which samples gradients and allows them to be used as fills, in addition to single colour picking.
Gradient fill and transparency effects, also mesh fills. Connector and Dimension tools for creating flowcharts and technical drawings. Artistic Text, Frame Text (which wraps to a frame) and Curve Text which can be entered onto an existing curve. Draw. Plus offers image editing and filters through its Photo. Lab and also provides a dedicated background- removal tool in the form of Cutout Studio. X4 introduced an Autotrace Studio to automatically convert bitmaps into vector representations. Shadow tool to interactively add drop and wall shadows to any object.
Crop tool allows easy cropping of any object(s) including photographs. Blend tool. Envelope, Roughen and Perspective tools. Filter Effects for one- click realistic effects such as glass, metallic, plastic and other 2.
D/3. D filters. Dynamic Guides allow snapping objects to existing objects and vertices. Object Properties tab shows all the current attributes applied to the selected object at a glance and allows them to be edited freely.
D Planes to aid creation of pseudo- 3. D objects. Various Overlays such as Golden Spiral, Rule of Thirds and an Export Overlay, which help with design and layout. How To tab offering context- sensitive help depending on current selection and tool choice. Layers Control showing previews of each element of the document in a tree- view. User- definable keyboard shortcuts.
Import/Export. Both versions also support PNG, JPEG, GIF, Microsoft HD Photo and TIFF export. Draw. Plus also opens and exports PDF documents, CAD drawings, and is also able to open EPS documents and Adobe Illustrator files (version 9. Draw. Plus can be used to create Adobe Flash swf files and WMV/AVI movies from user animations. Draw. Plus can also be used to create GIF animations. Output from both Draw. Plus and Starter Edition can be automatically supersampled to create very high quality exported images.