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Pattern Maker™ for Cross Stitch
Pattern Maker™ for Cross Stitch is a well designed software that is easy to use, has good docutmentatons and allows you to import your favorite photo into a workable design for cross stitch or the quilter. Try it Today!
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Pattern Maker™ for Cross Stitch
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| Item Code: C5 Weight: 1.60 Standard: $60  
Add to Wish List Item Code: C5 Weight: 1.60 Standard version with Machine Embrodiery Add On: $180.00
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For Chart showing feature difference.
1. Standard version: A feature set which is useful to the hobbyist.
2. Professional version: Includes additional features that are needed by professional cross-stitch designers.
3. Machine Embroidery: Includes all of the features of the Professional version plus features for exporting designs into the machine embroidery format.
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Minimum System Requirements
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Recommended System Capabilities
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Sorry, but this program is not available for the Mac.To help you better understand what Pattern Maker is and how it can help you in designing cross-stitch patterns, we offer a demo version that you can download.
Try it Today! 
This demo version allows you to try all features of Pattern Maker. The
only limitations of this version are in the saving, printing, clipboard,
and exporting features. For these features a built-in pattern is used.
Common Feature in all versions of the Pattern Maker
Additional Features of the Professional Level
Additional Features of the Machine Embroidery Add-on
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| FABRIC |
| Fabric size up to 999x999 full stitches |
| Fabric options including color, stitch size, & grid style |
| DRAWING |
| Stitches supported: full, half, quarter, petite, back/straight, specialty (over 50), French Knots, beads |
| Flexible back stitch and straight stitch |
| Draw back stitches in either point-to-point or tracing mode |
| Can repeat the initial orientation of a quarter or half stitch when drawing a sequence of stitches |
| Text entry feature including 25 alphabets by Kooler Design Studio |
| EDITING |
| Rectangular shaped selection tool |
| Cut, copy, paste, flip, rotate, flood fill, fill back-stitched area |
| Selected stitches 'float' above non-selected stitches and are visible while dragging to allow easy positioning |
| Enhanced flood fill tool which automatically uses quarter stitches |
| Center a selection horizontally or vertically |
| Eyedropper tool for displaying and/or selecting the stitch color and/or stitch type of a stitch pointed-to via the mouse |
| Zoom tool for magnifying a selected area of the design |
| Multi-level undo of edits (up to 100) |
| FLOSS PALETTE |
| Up to 240 colors per design |
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Floss/thread brands include:
Note that while Pattern Maker strives to supply color representations that are as accurate as possible when displayed on a computer, it not possible to perfectly represent the color of floss/thread. For floss/thread that is variegated, over dyed, or hand dyed, the program represents the thread using a single solid color. It is especially important with these brands that you have actual color samples available when you are selecting colors for a design. |
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Machine embroidery brands:
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| Blended colors (up to 4 colors per blend) |
| Interactive palette options bar (changes to the design are visible as the palette is edited) |
| Automatic symbol selection |
| Cross-stitch symbol font provided (224 symbols) |
| Can use any TrueType font |
| Can use symbols from more than one font in a design |
| Stitch usage summary which shows a tally of stitches used and estimated amount of floss needed |
| Customizable stitch display thickness (per strand setting) |
| Strand selection per palette color and per stitch type (up to 12 strands) |
| Symbol selection per stitch type |
| Symbol color, size, and style selection for full, half, quarter, petite, French knots, and bead stitches. |
| Symbol options for back, straight, specialty, French knot, and bead stitches |
| Symbol options including color-behind symbols and triangular/square color blocks for quarter stitches |
| Palette note per color and stitch type |
| Color brand conversion using editable conversion tables and by color matching |
| Can add same color to a palette multiple times for allowing different settings such as strand count |
| IMAGE IMPORTING (more info) |
| Image formats: BMP, PCX, GIF, WMF, JPEG, TIFF plus more |
| Scan directly into the program using a TWAIN compliant scanner |
| Two methods for importing: Importing Wizard and Interactive Importing. Wizard method provides a step-by-step approach that is good while learning the program. Interactive method allows options to be accessed in any order with the results of a change being visible immediately. |
| Converts image into full stitches. |
| Can include image as an underlay for manual tracing of the image |
| Import into a new design or a selected area of an existing design |
| Multiple palette options: Import using a selected brand of floss; Import using a user-selected palette of color; Import using the current palette of an existing design (when importing into an existing design). |
| User-selectable number of colors per design. Use up to 240 color per design. |
| Enhanced color-reduction techniques for reducing the number of colors needed for good results |
| Background selection tool for selecting areas of the image that should not be imported |
| Foreground selection tool for selecting areas of the image that should be given more priority when selecting colors. |
| Image adjustments (color, saturation, contrast, brightness, & cropping) |
| Grid alignment tool for aligning the grid of an image to the grid of the new design. Also calculates the required pattern size. |
| Fine control of sizing and positioning for underlay images when manually aligning the image with the design grid |
| DISPLAY |
| Display design as stitches, symbols, or solids |
| Detailed design information display |
| Rulers for displaying the stitch position |
| Display a pattern using multiple windows with each having independent settings |
| Open multiple designs at a time |
| Edge outlining of stitches for enhanced readability. |
| PRINTING |
| Print design as stitches, symbols, or solids |
| Detailed design information print-out |
| Print preview |
| Stitch numbering along edges of chart |
| Shaded stitch repeats between pages |
| Selectable header/footer, and selectable page margins |
| MISC |
| Selectable toolbars for providing many options only a click away |
| Pattern preview in File Open dialog box for making it easy to locate an existing design |
| Optional re-opening of designs that were open when the program was last used |
| Library feature (organize pattern elements for easy reuse) |
| Update wizard for assisting in the download and installation of program updates |
| Complete built-in help |
| 30 professionally designed patterns by The Vermillion Stitchery |
| 50 clipart designs from Kooler Design Studio |
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| DRAWING |
| Edit and create specialty stitches; includes a curve drawing tool for creating high-quality curved shapes; includes capability to define stitches that can be easily repeated to fill areas. (more info) |
| ADVANCED EDITING |
| Free-hand selection tool for making arbitrarily-shaped selections |
| Limit colors included in a selection |
| Limit stitch types included in a selection |
| Replace the color of selected stitches |
| Replace the type of selected stitches |
| Fill the empty area of a selection using chosen stitch types |
| Auto-outline a selected area using backstitches: either between the fabric and the stitches, between stitches of different colors, or around the selection. |
| Paste into a selection using a previously copied area of the design to produce a patterned effect. Can paste into the used area, the unused area, or the entire area of the selection. Automatically uses partial stitches. |
| PALETTE |
| Highlighting feature for locating stitches of the selected color |
| DESIGN LAYOUT (more info) |
| Create page layouts using a built-in word processor |
| Insert one or more chart objects into a layout for representing all or some portion of the design. Selectable formatting for the chart object. |
| Insert one or more floss tables into a layout. Selectable column contents and formatting. Selectable table formatting including border style, cell color, and text formatting. |
| Insert graphics objects such as logos or diagrams |
| Insert pattern information fields |
| Insert OLE objects from other applications |
| Insert other user-specified text using paragraph formatting or table formatting |
| All layout objects and information automatically updated when design changes |
| Supports multiple document sections with independent section formatting (columns, page size, page orientation, margins) |
| Supports the creation of custom layout templates which can be re-used for new designs. |
| Export a layout as an RTF file for importing into other applications |
| GRAPHICS EXPORTING (more info) |
| Export design as a graphics file (for the chart) and RTF file (for the pattern information) |
| Supports 10 graphics file formats including BMP, JPEG, TIFF, and WMF |
| Export design using OLE |
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Export into any of the common machine
formats:
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| Design conversion using built-in Buzz Tools® software |
| Hoop size selectable from list or specify a custom size |
| Automatically splits designs that are larger than the selected hoop size |
| Alignment stitches available to aid in the stitch-out of multi-hoop designs |
| Automatically splits designs into multiple files based upon user-selectable stitch and thread-change limits |
| Detailed exporting results to aid in the stitch-out |
| Display of jump stitches |
| Selectable stitch-out thickness for each stitch type and palette color |
| (Note: Only full, half, quarter, back/straight, and French Knot stitches are supported by this feature) |
Machine Embroidery: Feature Details
The Machine Embroidery add-on of Pattern Maker allows you to very easily export your cross stitch designs into one of the common embroidery file formats for stitch-out on a machine. This feature is only available in the Machine Embroidery add-on.
Machine Embroidery: Supported Machine File Types
The Machine Embroidery feature can export a design into any of the following machine file types:
Brother/Baby Lock/Bernina (PES/PEC)
Viking Husqvarna (HUS)
Pfaff (PCS)
Janome New Home (SEW)
Janome (JEF)
Poem/Singer EU (CSD)
Viking Huskygram (Old-style CSD) (CSD)
Compucon/Singer PSW (XXX)
Tajima (DST)
Melco (EXP)
Machine Embroidery: Special Features
As necessary, the program will automatically split the design into multiple machine files based upon:
Stitch limits imposed by the file type or memory card
Thread change limits imposed by the file type or machine
Hoop size
The limits used by the program in deciding when to split a design are fully selectable by the user. When it is necessary to split the file due to the hoop size being smaller than the design, the program will add alignment stitches along the boundaries between the sections to aid in the re-hooping or repositioning of the fabric. The program adds these alignment stitches in such a way that it is easy to remove them after alignment is done.
Machine Embroidery: Stitch Generation
The thread order for the stitch-out of a design is based upon the order of the colors in the palette. To have a particular color stitch-out earlier, the color can be re-positioned in the palette of the design.
Stitches are generated using three passes thru the palette. In the first pass, all full, half, and quarter stitches are generated. In the second pass, back and straight stitches are generated. In the third pass, French Knots are generated. Note that specialty stitches and petite stitches are not currently supported by this feature.
In generating machine stitches to represent the design, the program attempts to minimize the number of jump stitches required. To aid the user in designing-out jump stitches, the display of jumps stitches (only after exporting) can be enabled.
Machine Embroidery: Stitch-out Information
The program provides a detailed summary of the exporting results. This information includes the resulting design size, a list of all files created, and a thread change list for each file which includes stitch count per color. When stitching-out the design, the user must rely upon this thread list instead of the color descriptions that may be indicated by the machine. This information can be printed or displayed in a window that is updated each time the design is exported.
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Program Requirements:
Sorry, but this program is not available for Windows
3.1 or for the Mac.To help you better understand what Pattern Maker
is and how it can help you in designing cross-stitch patterns, we offer
a demo version that you can download.
Try it Today!
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