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Design Interface
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MDI (Multiple Document Interface) You can have multiple patters open at the same time. |
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Panels: Panels can be docked, moved, and pinned allowing you to setup your own custom design interface. |
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Modern Ribbon Bar Interface |
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Objects
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Items such as library pieces or specialty stitches are now objects, meaning they are selected, moved or removed as a single item. |
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Objects “float” over the top of the background. This means you can move an object without disturbing the stitches behind it. |
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Right-click any object and optionally merge it to the background, allowing you to modify it. |
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Select any area of your design and turn it into an object, allowing you to move it as one thing. |
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Drawing
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Basic Stitch Support: Full, Half, Quarter, Three-Quarter, and Petite, as well as backstitch, french knots and Beads. |
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Flexible backstitch mode: Attach lines anywhere in the gridsquare. |
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Automatic Backstitch: Select an area and have it automatically outlined using backstitches. |
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Smart Stitch Mode: Quarter, Threequarter and Petite stitches. Select a particular type (Upper Left as an example), or use the Smart mode that places the stitch in the area you select. |
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Draw backstitches in point-to-point mode or tracing mode. |
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Flood-Fill any area. This can be an empty area, or an area defined by the same color. |
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Enhanced Flood-Fill operation uses quarter stitches when filling an area. |
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Color-picker tools allows you to pick the active floss color by picking it out of a pattern. |
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Multi-Level Undo |
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Zoom capabilities allow you to magnify any area of your design. |
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Edit functions: Cut, Copy Paste, Flip, Rotate any selected area. |
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Libraries
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Create your own collections of pattern pieces and save them as a collection. For example, create your own library of trees or flowers, and then drop these pieces in any future pattern. |
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Create as many libraries as you wish. |
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A new panel makes displaying and applying library items easy! |
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Edit any individual entry in a library at any time with ease. Just right-click the entry in the panel and choose Edit. The software takes care of putting it back for you. |
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When applied to patterns, library entries are objects. This means you can move or remove them at any time with ease. |
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Borders
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Create your own custom borders and apply them to any future pattern. |
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Borders can be applied inside or around an existing design. |
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A Border is an object, meaning you can remove or replace it in any pattern with ease! |
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Specialty Stitches
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Create your own specialty stitches and use them them over and over in future patterns. |
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A new panel makes working with specialty stitches easier than ever before. |
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Specialty stitches are objects, meaning you can move or remove them with ease. |
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Text
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Create your own stitched text alphabets. |
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Convert any TrueType font into letters in your patterns. |
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Letters are objects, meaning you can move, or remove them with ease. |
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Pattern Notes
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Pattern notes allow you to drop an icon anywhere in a pattern, and add text and graphics to display what the icon represents. As an example, your pattern could include a button or other embellishment. You could use a note to define the location of the button. The text of the note would explain what the button is. Your note could even include a picture of the button and a web site where it could be purchased. |
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Use any icon you wish for your notes. The icons are embedded in the pattern file itself. |
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Include a graphic or other picture with your notes. |
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Notes are optionally printed in the pattern information sheet. |
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A Note panel makes using or displaying notes easy. |
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Note Text can include different fonts, tabs, color and even bullets and indentations. |
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Printing
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Print as symbols, solid blocks, blocks & Symbols. |
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Enhanced information sheet prints floss legend, instructions and pattern notes. |
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Include a design logo in any design and have it printed on the information sheet. |
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Print the pattern legend on the design grid. |
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Optionally include the color, manufacturer ID and description in the legend. |
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Size the output to a specific Stitches-Per-Inch setting. |
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Size the output to a specific number of pages |
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Use the Optimal setting to have the pattern sized to your specific settings, and use as much as the paper as possible. |
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Fit-to-single-page printouts |
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Shaded stitch repeats between pages. |
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Customizable header and footer for each printed page and customizable margin settings |
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Print Preview showing up to 6 pages at a time. |
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Pattern Display
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Display stitches as Color Blocks, Symbols, Color and Symbols, Stitches or Virtual Stitches. |
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Display rulers as inches, centimeters or stitch count. |
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Status bar provides additional information. |
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Display different patterns at the same time, all with their own display settings. |
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A new highlighting makes locating selected floss colors a snap! |
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Palette Entries (Floss)
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Blend floss entries by dropping any floss onto an existing palette entry |
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Custom Hatches settings allow you to choose how blended floss entries are displayed |
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Automatic Symbol Selection |
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Symbol panel makes changing the symbol or symbol color for any entry easy. |
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Optionally, choose symbols by stitch type for the same palette entry. |
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Use any TrueType font for Symbols. You can even use multiple fonts in the same pattern. |
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Choose any color for any symbol in the pattern. |
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Add the same color to the palette multiple times if you wish. |
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