February 22nd, 2012· Fixed the view focus issue while clicking the Color panel.
· Improved the BPMN 2 library.
January 16th, 2012· Added the smart drawing guide for mind map diagram type. You needn't draw connectors for every topic now.
· Added the smart drawing guide for the organizational chart diagram type.
· Integrated the MS Office into Edraw program. Easy to share diagram and data with the Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
· Added the data export feature for mind map diagram.
· Added eight types of arrangement mode for the mind map diagram.
· Added the file recover panel for possible exception error.
· Automatically compress the size of image while replacing the photo in the organizational chart.
· Improved the Background, Arrow, Basic Drawing Shapes, Borders types in the General Library.
· Improved the image quality of full screen preview.
· Fixed the text background color bug in the Visio import diagrams.
October 7th, 2011· Added the Calendar Mark and Gantt Chart in the Project Management library.
· Improved the Laboratory Equipment Shapes in the Scientific Illustration library.
· Improved the snap and glue arithmetic.
· Added subway diagram shapes in the Geo Map library.
· Fixed the possible exception while dragging shapes continually.
September 23rd, 2011· Added the Circular Diagram, List and Process types in the Business Diagram Library.
· Added the Windows UI Design type in the Software Library.
· Added the Matrix type in the Project Management Library.
· Added the guideline for Left Align, Right Align and Equal Interval while moving the shapes.
· Provided the new White Theme as the default Edraw 6 theme.
· Added the Mechanics Diagram, Optics Diagram, Chemistry Equation Diagram, Laboratory Equipment Diagram, Molecular Model Diagram, Mathematics types in the Science Library.
· Improved the Symbols in the Mind Map Library.
· Improved the Background, Arrow, Basic Drawing Shapes, Borders types in the General Library.
· Support the hyperlink function while exporting to the PDF Format.
· Added more examples and symbols.
· Added the quick color bar in the bottom of the document.
September 23rd, 2011· Added the line theme.
· Added some new symbols and examples for IEDF2 Flowchart.
· Added the Metric Unit and U.S. Unit options while creating a new document.
· mproved the default theme and shape effect.
· Improved the font search function.
· Improved the pdf export quality.
· Fixed the possible bug while importing the Visio XML File.
October 6th, 2010· Added the text replace feature. Text Tool Text Replace
· Improved the Visio file import.
· Fixed the bug that fail to load fill styles in the old Edraw files.
· Fixed the bug while setting the text bullet feature.
September 19th, 2010· Improved the file archive speed. Now the library loading speed is ten times faster than the previous version.
· fix bug Moved the Choose Drawing Type panel to the Ribbon 2010 File menu.
· fix bug Fixed the painting problem that some icon can't show in the library panel.
· new function Implemented "disable spell check" feature.
· fix bug Fixed problem with cropping view in the zoom view.
· new function Added the action button to replace photo in a shape.
· new function Added the action button to navigate hyperlink in a shape.
· new function Added the action button to execute the shape action with one click.
· new function Saved the drawing type in the config file for the further use.
· fix bug Fixed the crash error when link a file which included the ole object.
July 15th, 2010· Adds float action buttons to implement shape action easier.
· new function Adds toggle connected shapes feature, which allows to hide all the connected shapes.
· fix bug Faster shape operating speed.
June 14th, 2010· Removed the Edraw Slide Show export functions and we will add new flash file export in next version.
· Added the shape replacement function in the library panel.
· Fixed some connection line error while expanding page automatically.
· Improved the property sheet of shape.
November 28th, 2009· Fixed the bug while typing the Asian text.
· new function Added the one-click hyperlink navigate mode.
· fix bug Improved the PNG Export quality of all shapes.
· fix bug Fixed the refresh bug while changing the style of connector.
· fix bug Fixed the bold text print error of table object.
· fix bug Fixed the snap error.
October 19th, 2009· Automatically resize the page as you draw.
· Added the Zoom & Pan window to navigate the drawing.
· The table feature has been significantly enhanced. It is now much easier to create common used tables.
· Improved performance while drawing.
· Added some templates to draw Business Process Modeling Notation Diagram, 3D Network Diagram, Family Tree, Timeline, PERT Chart, Business Cards, Flyer Design, Invoice Making, Fax Cover Design, Sales & Budgets Forms.
· Improved some templates such as NassiShneiderman, Mind Mapping, Directional Map, Charts and Graphs, Value Stream Mapping, TQM diagram, CauseEffect diagram.
· Added lots of examples such as Grid Matrix, Process Flow Chain, Venn Diagram, Process Steps, Cycle and SWOT Diagram.
· Added the Fit to Drawing option in the Page Size dialog.
· Added page margin for every page.
· Added the ability to save multiple selected objects as the library element.
· Added the Manage Panel to organize multiple documents as a project.
· Added the Property Panel for symbols to add customize data.
· Added the hyperlink in the exported SVG document.
· Faster speed while editing text.
· Fixed the shadow region of group object.
· Replace Photo will keep the aspect rate of the image in the Organizational Chart template.
· Support to export the active page as the OLE object.
· Fixed the shadow region of connector.
August 18th, 2009· Added the ability to print and export the big size pdf file.
· new function Added new white theme interface.
· new function Added examples category in the Getting Started panel.
· new function Added the ability to create template from some images in a folder.
· new function Added transparent property for the image object.
· new function Added four sets of standard Cisco icons.
· new function Added the ability to import the binary Visio file(*.vsd). The batch convert is also available.
· new function Added Property Panel for exporting the shape's properties and print.
· new function Added the spelling check function when typing the text.
· fix bug Hide the connection points automatically when the view state isn't connect state.
· fix bug Faster speed while opening templates.
· fix bug Faster template open speed.
· fix bug Fixed problem with blur shadow.
· fix bug Improvements in the menu icons.
· fix bug Fixed problem with printing picture watermark.
March 22nd, 2009· Added the ORM diagram in the Edraw UML Diagram.
· Faster text drawing speed and blur shadow render speed.
· Avoided the window flicker when switch among the different galleries.
· Improved the EMF and WMF image render quality.
· Improved the SVG export quality.
· Fixed the bug which the text style can't get it back via Undo action when text style once been set.
· Fixed the bug which adds the unnecessary shape while closing the context menu.
· Improved the Text Format Preview function.
March 3rd, 2009· SVG format export.
· Added shortcut key to resize the page view, now the users can zoom in or zoom out the view with the middle mouse button while holding the Ctrl key.
· Improved the display effect of radial fill.
· Fixed the occasional crash bug when some connection lines crossed.
· Allowed the users to use Edraw full version without the administrator privilege but they have activated Edraw copy as administrator.
· Added the update reminder while launching software.
· Now you can enter multiple lines text for creating the beautiful Vector Text.
· Added the shortcut keys for the Add Page, Rename Page, Resort Page and Remove Page.
· Fixed the occasional crash bug when some connection lines crossed.
· Fixed the crash bug while editing vertex of some special text path shape.
November 17th, 2008· Visio compatibility. Support to import the Visio XML file.
· Added More highlight mind map symbols for the Mind Map drawings.
· Added the default formatting for shapes: 1) Make sure that no shapes are selected. 2) On the Home menu, click font name, font size, line dashes, weights or arrows. 3) Select the formatting options you want.
· Saved the correlative libraries in the file. So that the libraries will be opened automatically when you open the document later.
· Improved the quality of text antialiasing.
· Fixed that the text background can't be removed in some computers.
· Added the progress bar while saving, opening or importing a document.
· Fixed the occasional crash bug when move group sub object while holding CTRL.
· Improved the print and export speed of big size document.
· Fixed the some setting in the option dialog.
· Fixed some small bugs.
September 10th, 2008· Version 4.1
August 22nd, 2008· The UI is MS Office 2007 style like. Full ribbon features.
· Added Themes, Color Themes, Effects and Fonts. Easy to change the whole diagram by changing the active theme. With the new Theme feature, you can format the colors and effects in an entire diagram with a single click.
· Real-time previews. When you scroll over the various galleries in Edraw, you'll see your drawings and various objects change to display what they'll look like if you decide to apply those settings. Just click on the thumbnail in the gallery to actually accept the changes. This makes it a lot faster to see, for example, how changing a color scheme will affect your drawings.
· Quick layouts and quick styles. These provide quick formatting options for the object in question, and make it easy to create good-looking slides with just a few clicks.
· Put Edraw graphics into Word, Excel, PowerPoint with one-click buttons.
· Text objects supported line space, bullet, Indent, back color, super script, sub script and more.
· Shadows in general are so very nice compared to those in previous versions. We can actually control the transparency, amount of blur, and color now.
· Shape and text presets make it really easy to apply a preset look to an object or text.
· It's quicker to zoom in and out now using the zoom slider in the southeast corner of the screen.
· Table support.
· Recolor picture, Light and Contrast, transparent PNG support.
· Opened the Shape Sheet for senior users to create more complicated shapes.
· More 2000 clip arts.
· Improved the Insert Hyperlink function.
· Improved the Print function. Support more page sizes such as A0, A1. You can also print the large size graphics in separate pages.
· Persistent undo and redo.
· High quality graphic export.
November 13th, 2006· Add gallery support
· improved tooltips
October 15th, 2006· Add gallery support and improve tooltips