OpenOffice Draw Reviews & Product Details

It is free and open source, which means it is accessible to anyone without having to pay for a license. It includes a large number of templates and predefined shapes. It offers a wide variety of drawing and diagram tools, allowing for the creation of professional and precise designs. It integrates with the rest of the OpenOffice software suite, facilitating import and export. It is compatible with a wide variety of file formats. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The user interface is often confusing and difficult to navigate, with a multitude of menus and options that are unnecessary or hard to find. It has some stability and speed issues, which can sometimes be frustrating. Regarding compatibility with files from other applications, it sometimes causes problems, especially with shared documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If you have used the draw functions within Microsoft Word, then OpenOffice Draw will feel familiar and perhaps superior to the microsoft interface. The fact that it is free and open is another big plus! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That said, there are still some downsides. OpenOffice Draw is missing some key functionality that would help it surpass the other paid software options that are out there. Things like the fontwork gallery are a time machine to windows 98 aesthetic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about OpenOffice Draw is that it helps greatly with adding graphics and visuals to documents and presentations and overall easily accessible Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I can't say there is a lot I dislike with OpenOffice Draws except maybe the learning curve. However I have not implemented it enough to say more at this time but it's overall helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like most about OpenOffice Draw is that it's accessible for adding to presentations, lectures, and design layouts with vector and 3D design capability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't have a lot to say about what I dislike about OpenOffice Draw, as I have limited experience with use or seeing it in use, but overall it seems to work for what it's designed to do. However, it seems there is a learning curve which may make it more difficult for some users to adjust to it not being as immediately intuitive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenOffice Draw is part of the OpenOffice suite that was released for the first time in 2002.

OpenOffice offers a good level of compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats, but uses predefined formats defined by the XML-based OpenDocument international standard.

From version 2.0 of OOo the format of saving documents is OpenDocument (ODF) standard (ISO / IEC 26300: 2006) defined by the OASIS consortium.

I use OpenOffice Draw because it's quick and easy. You can click on a new drawing without opening a new file to start a new drawing. You can switch between open drawings without closing multiple drawings. With OpenOffice Draw you can perform standard drawing operations such as drawing, magnifying, rotating objects, magnifying levels and arranging the different levels.

OpenOffice Draw officially supports Linux, Microsoft Windows, Solaris and MacOS, but it can also be installed on other operating systems.

The Sun PDF Import Extension extension provides Draw with the option of editing PDF files, even generated outside the suite. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I generally use Illustrator and Photoshop. For Illustrator, when I need to open a file in Draw, the easiest way is to open Illustrator, copy and paste directly into Draw. Over the years it has become increasingly stable and is very much appreciated by those who come to CorelDraw. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

OpenOffice Draw is a complete powerful application that works great for diagramming and producing documents that others paid software like Powerpoint cannot or struggle to produce. It easily, effectively replace far more costly options and out-features them in some areas (like file format options or placement and layers). Add to this that Draw (like the whole OpenOffice suite) is multiplatform and its value skyrockets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Interface seems a bit outdated, or not aligned to widely adopted standards, like most of the OpenOffice suite, and that largely depends on being multiplatform, but ultimately it is a just a matter of the look and feel. Templates and standard simbols library are not so fashionable and sometimes their choice of color and shapes seems a bit awkward, but you can find many other options free on the web, so you have to invest some time looking around but you will also save a lot of money. Compared to other more specific diagramming software, it lacks some metadata management features, but they are really essential only in a large corporate environment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

By installing the OpenOffice package on my portable, among the various programs I also installed OpenOffice Draw out of curiosity. Unfortunately my curiosity has not paid off. is a very basic program for creating images without too many pretensions. If you are a beginner with graphics programs it may be fine, but it is not useful for experienced users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The weak point is that the program is absolutely not in line with the times. Today the graphics and layout programs are intuitive and with billions of functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Impressive functions and a very good and wide menu bar with many functions to create. Its the simple style that I liked, you can draw and create images from everywhere just loggin in your account. As it is a open software it's of course necessary that also in this company the public is improving the software and reporting some errors often with the goal to can fix and improve the software. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Of course the functions are also limited - I reommend to improve the top border functions, its unpossible for me to create a picture without the borderline in x and y, thats a not so nice thing, here I think with a new version it's possible to fix that matter. However a other minus is that they are trying to let you join only with a google-account or with a other social service. Maybe the security of your documents its not the highest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's free and you can work on your project offline. I usually perform about the same tasks with https://www.draw.io/ but, for example, travelling on a train sometimes bad connectivity makes draw.io useless or risky. The classical openoffice installed suite saves your life.

Also file recovery, when, for some reason, application crashed, actually works quite well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Usability. Under many aspects it's not ergonomic and counter-intuitive. It also lacks of features and gallery of components its direct competitor (Microsoft Visio) has since ages.

OpenOffice misses also a cloud version like Visio so that you cannot cooperate/share file with others directly.

As an opensource software user, I often don't mind about "appearence", but even if it became better and better during last years,openoffice user interface is still a little bit ugly.

Available templates are not so "elegant" as Visio's. However, if you are in hurry, it can speed up your work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I happen to have to do small informative brochures and with OpenOffice Draw I can lay out and report important information that must not be missing for customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

You can't do great special effects in the layout but this is because it is a very basic program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.