Vertical and horizontal rulers run along two sides of the centrally positioned work area. The left side of the interface contains a column of tools with many featuring pop-out facilities for selecting different options plus a pop-out How To panel which provides help with certain tasks. There is the standard arrangement of drop-down menus and toolbars running across the top of the screen. Those users upgrading from the earlier software will certainly appreciate the familiar surroundings. Not surprisingly, the DrawPlus X5 interface bears a remarkable resemblance to that used by the previous version of the product. The third category of Learn provides links to various tutorial videos covering various aspects of the program.

Initially you will be limited to opening a print, art or illustration sample until you produce some work of your own. You can choose to start a new project based on different paper sizes and document type, create a key frame or stop frame animation, or import a PDF document. There are four options in the Create section.

The opening screen of DrawPlus X5 presents an overlaid window giving the use access to a series of options categorised as Create, Open and Learn. Finally you will need to enter the 25-character product key to activate the product. The installation has its own default drive and folder destination but this can be changed if you wish. You can opt to include QuickTime 7.6.9 as part of the installation or add this feature at a later date. You will need to sleet your country (UKorUSA) and choice of dictionary language from those available. Installing DrawPlus X5 is just a matter of following on-screen prompts.

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