EdrawInfo User Guide

EdrawInfo is an ideal choice for making infographics, posters, flyers, brochures quickly and easily. You do not even need professional drawing skills, just drag and drop the shapes you need, then the infographic that you want is finished.

With a one-off payment, you can use all 10000+ infographic icons and hundreds of premium templates. No additional money is required. As an offline infographic software, you can use it regardless of internet connection. Therefore, it's far more fast stable, and powerful.

A few simple steps in EdrawInfo produce A-class high quality work. Our software is designed to be simple, direct and time-saving. It only requires a single drag to add a shape, few more for final touches, and that's it! You can customize the text with range of fonts, colors, text styles and sizes. On this infographics drawing platform, it is easy to do everything in the fastest way and after all, simplicity is what we aim for.

Click Background button on Home tab. You can choose the desired colors in the drop-down menu.

Every theme has a theme background color. When you change a new theme, the background color will change accordingly.

You can use pre-defined background designs. Click Choose Background, and two background libraries will show up on the left, which are titled Backgrounds and Texture Backgrounds.

Click Remove Background, the background of the drawing will become transparent and you can see the margin of the page.

You need to switch to the background layer when you want to edit the background. There are two ways to switch to the background layer.

After you finish editing the background, you can click Normal View button to switch back the full display.

You need to switch to the background layer to design a new background.

Symbol Libraries are categorized into 9 groups.

Click the library icons to open new symbol library.

Click X icon to close a library which is no longer needed.

Input the title or description in the search bar and click Enter or the search icon.

To select a sub-shape in a grouped shape, simply click on the sub-shape one more time. When a sub-shape is selected, the selection box is blue.

Select the shape that you want to change and drag the green handles to resize it.

Select the shape, click Property icon on the right sidebar and input the precise shape data.

To set shapes in the same size, you can select the shapes, then click Size button on Home tab or floating menu.

You can also choose to set the same size, width, height, or angle for the selected shapes.

Click Fill button on Home tab or on the right sidebar to open Fill panel.

Click Line button on Home tab or on the right sidebar to open Line panel.

Click Shadow icon on the right sidebar to format the shadow of the selected shape.

The Theme option contains the predefined theme color schemes and theme unit colors.

When you change the theme color scheme, the unit colors will change accordingly. Then you can apply the unit colors directly to the selected shape.

Apply theme unit colors to each shape:

Change a new color scheme:

To copy style from one shape to another, you can use the format painter.

Select the shape whose style you want to copy, then click Copy Style button on Home tab or floating menu.

The Quick Color Bar is located at the bottom of the interface.

Colors from the Quick Color Bar won't be changed when changing themes.

There are 3 ways to change the fill color.

Click Fill button on Home tab or on the right sidebar and choose Solid fill.

Click Fill button on Home tab or on the right sidebar and choose Gradient fill.

Choose a gradient type:

Choose a gradient direction (This example is for linear type):

Choose a gradient angle:

Gradient Stops:

Pattern Fill allows you to fill shapes or symbols with pre-defined patterns. You can change foreground and background colors of the pattern.

Choose a pre-defined hatch type:

Change foreground and background color:

You can't change colors when you use the Picture or texture fill function.

Choose a pre-defined texture design:

Fill with local pictures:

There are 2 ways to change the line colors.

There are 2 ways to draw a line.

Select the line that you want to change.

Select the line that you want to change.

Select the line that you want to change.

You can add a text block anywhere on the canvas.

Click the Text button in the Home tab and the cursor will become .

Then you can draw a text block on the canvas with your mouse and type in the textbox directly.

After you finish typing, click Select button to switch back to Arrow cursor, then you can move the text block to the place you want.

You can set Font options either from the right sidebar or from the floating menu.

The Right Sidebar locates on the right side of the canvas.

When you select a text block, the floating menu will show up. It is one of the most frequently-used tools.

You can change the alignment and spacing of the text in Font panel on the right sidebar.

You can add bullet points to the text from the Font menu on the right sidebar.

To add a curved text, you can follow the 5 steps:

There are 2 ways to insert a picture.

Click Picture button on Insert tab or click Picture icon on right sidebar and click Insert picture.

You can set the brightness, contrast and transparency of the picture on Picture panel.

You can follow the below steps to clip a picture to a certain shape.

You can clip a picture to any shape that you want.

You can clip a picture to any shape that you want.:

Open Chart library, drag and drop the selected chart onto the canvas.

You can drag the yellow control handle on the shape, or click the floating button to set data.

The Layer function allows you to manage objects separately in the different layers.