EdawMax is an incredibly powerful program for visualization.
You can make professional looking diagrams and charts,
modern infographics,
various presentations,
mind maps and regular maps,
house plans,
engineering graphics,
and many more.
Guess what...
EdawMax is available as a native program in Linux.
So, let's review it!
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Edrawmax is a program for fast and intuitive visualization.
The link is in the description.
When you open Edrawmax, it offers you quite an extensive choice of templates.
You pick a template from the theme you need and start creating.
Templates are categorized by topics.
You can create Diagrams
Business cards,
Clipart,
I was the most impressed with these floor plans.
I will open one to show you all the details.
For example, Community Home plan.
Just look at this.
All these minor details, aren't they impressive.
You can move the door.
To make it open outside.
You can even move this small pillow on the sofa.
Let's move this sink to the other wall.
Rotate it.
You can actually design everything in scale to a real size.
For example, when you click on any object you can change is size precisely.
But house planning is a very specific topic.
Let's have a look at something more general.
For example, let's pick this template.
Here is what you can do.
You can edit these circular arrows altogether.
You can change their size.
Rotate them.
You can also edit each of them separately.
You can move it.
Change its color.
On the left, you will find some pre-selected libraries for this template.
You can add more people or some business scenes.
You can change the background.
There are also some more chars to choose from.
If this is not enough, you can also add more libraries.
You can add some clip arts.
For example, professions
I think some business related infographics will fit this template theme as well.
I also what to show you how EdrawMax handles different data presentations.
For example, in diagrams.
If you change the percentage, the pie chart will adjust automatically,
You can also load your data to make a chart.
As far as the interface is concerned, it is very intuitive.
You have already seen this menu which appears on every object you select.
The top panel is pretty standard.
With this notebook layout.
You can insert different objects.
Change page layout this theme section is pretty useful.
Everything can be previewed on the fly which is pretty nice.
If you need some standard symbols, you can find them here, in the symbol tab.
There is also additional toolbar on the right
where you can fine tune different objects of your graphics.
I also would like to mention that this is not the default look of the program.
I have changed it to Dark Grey style.
In my view, it is better than white.
I also increased the font size,
so you can better see everything if you watch this video on a smaller screen.
If you click on this icon, you can also hide the toolbar to have more space for the main window.
This is useful if you use EdrawMax on a laptop.
Different projects are opened in different tabs.
So, you can work on several projects at the same time.
If you make a presentation that includes several slides, you need to add a new page.
All pages will be shown here at the bottom.
You quickly navigate between them through this drop-down menu.
You can also preview them.
When you are finished, you can export your work in different formats.
I usually use PDF
because PDF will look the same everywhere
regardless of whether you open it on Linux, Mac, Windows or your mobile phone.
Edrawmax is capable of saving all graphics in a vector format.
So, the quality of the graphics doesn't deteriorate as you zoom in.
You can see it is not pixelated
I also would like to mention that if the included templates are not enough for you,
you can click here and go to the online database of templates.
There are a plethora of templates here.
You download the template you like
And open it in Edrawmax.
You can also share your work.
The program will create a link.
And anyone with the link will be able to see your artwork.
You can manage your shared works from here.
You see what you share and you can cancel your shares.
You can also get your personal cloud.
For that, you need to sign in here.
I am signed in as you can see.
I believe you have already suspected that such a feature rich program is probably not free.
You can, of course, use a free trial, but you need to buy a license to get access to all the features.
There is a lifetime license available for Linux,
the other licenses are only for Windows and Mac.
If you are an academic or nonprofit, you can get some discount.
The program can be used on 2 computers.
You can transfer it to another computer.
You will get Free Lifetime Upgrade Guarantee
Unlimited Email Support
and 1 GB of cloud Space.
You are of course welcome to try it for free.
You choose the Linux version
download it.
You can skip this step.
Save.
Go to your Downloads folder.
Extract the downloaded archive.
Go to the properties of this run file
and make it executable.
Open the terminal in this folder.
And run the installation script.
If you see this error message, just ignore it.
It is some font error which will not affect you in any way.
As you can see here, the program has been installed into the /opt folder.
You can open Edrawmax from your menu or by running edrawmax from the terminal.
When you open it the first time, it will ask you to activate it.
You can simply close this window if you want to try the program.
I have got a license form Edraw,
they sponsored this video,
so I will show you how to activate it.
You enter you License name and your code.
The program is activated.
To verify the activation.
You can restart the program
go to the Help tab
click on activate,
and you will see that your product is activated.
Overall the program works well.
I have been using it for three weeks already.
It is stable and works smoothly.
My only complaint is that the program never remembers my sign in the cloud.
Whenever I close the program, it signs out.
It may be annoying if you want to use the cloud a lot.
Otherwise, it is a great program.
If you need to make a lot of graphics, this program is really worth its price.
What do you think about EdrawMax?
Would you use it and will you be willing to pay for it?
I know many Linux users reject non-free software
But is there any alternative to EdrawMax?
Let me know your thoughts in the comments section.
Thank you for watching.
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