PCStitch Pro 7.0 lets you create simple or
complex cross-stitch patterns with sophisticated, yet easy-to-use
functionality! Its powerful new multi-window user interface allows you to customize the design
environment to your exact needs. With PCStitch Pro, you can create simple
or complex patterns with sophisticated, yet easy-to-use functionality never seen
before in a cross-stitch application.
MDI environment lets you have multiple
patterns open at the same time.
Objects: Move custom stitches and library
pieces as a single piece
Completely customizable design environment
Customizable toolbars
Automatic Backstitch
Highlighting feature for locating selected
floss colors
Shaded overlap areas on the printout
Optional floss legend on the printed grid
pages
Notes: Add additional information and
graphics to areas of your design
New Stitch Type: Petite Stitches
Include a designer logo in the pattern
information sheet
Customize the floss legend on the
information sheet and pattern grid
9 display themes to personalize the design
interface
Use different symbol fonts in the same
pattern
Symbol fonts are embedded in the patterns
for easy distribution
Choose different colors for symbols in
your printouts
Optional symbol choices per floss entry by
stitch type
Print preview allows you to view up to 6
pages at a time
Multi-Level Undo
Customizable hatched display of blended
flosses
Define strand count by stitch type for
each palette entry
Customizable header and footer on
printouts
New symbol panel makes selecting and
changing entry symbols a snap
New Instructions panel allows you to view
and modify instructions while the pattern is open
New Specialty Stitch panel makes selecting
and using specialty stitches easy
Borders: As objects, borders can not be
replaced or removed with a few mouse clicks
Enhanced palette entry properties panel
Enhanced pattern information sheet with
printouts
Enhanced Library panel for selecting and
applying pattern pieces
Enhanced short cut clicks
Enhanced Specialty Stitches panel
Customize your workspace using multi-windows:
PCStitch Pro features a flexible easy-to-use workspace, completely customizable
to your individual creative needs. Panels give you instant access to
instructions, notes, the palette and other parts of your design. Float the
panels, move them to different places, or set them up to slide out when needed,
giving you ultimate designing environment.
Create a pattern from a scanned photo or other graphics image:
PCStitch can take almost any graphic image and convert it into a cross-stitch
pattern. You determine the size and number of colors, and let PCStitch do the
rest! The colors are automatically mapped to the floss. Convert something as
simple as a piece of clipart, or something as complex as a photograph!
Unmatched support of basic and specialty stitch types:
Basic stitches supported include full, half, quarter, three quarter, and petite,
as well as French knots and beads. A flexible backstitch mode allows you to
anchor your stitches anywhere in the grid locations. Specialty Stitches are a
breeze to create and use with PCStitch Pro.
Objects, objects, objects…..
The professional version of PCStitch supports objects. What are objects? They
are best explained with an example. A specialty stitch or a library piece is a
combination of multiple basic stitches. Pro combines these stitches together and
lets you move them as one. It works the same way with library pieces. Now, when
you drop a tree from a library into your design, you can move the tree with a
simple click and drag. Also, objects are “on top” of your design area, so
moving them does not disturb stitches below them.
Include more information in your designs: Introducing Pattern Notes!
Pattern Notes are a new feature in PCStitch Pro. Start by dropping a visual icon
anywhere on your design grid, then include text and graphic images to explain to
a stitcher what might happen in that area. An example of a note may be the
location of a button or other embellishment. The Icon shows the stitcher where
to put the button. The note panel can give the stitcher special instructions and
even show a picture of the button!
More printout capabilities than ever before!
PCStitch Pro Printouts are Awesome! Now, you can include the floss legend on the
printed grid page and place it on the sides or along the bottom. Define a shaded
overlap section from page to page. Our optimized sizing feature lets the
software figure out the best way to print the grid for you. And, you can even
include your own logo or other promotional graphic in the pattern information
sheet.
Design Interface
MDI (Multiple Document Interface) You can
have multiple patters open at the same time.
Panels: Panels can be docked, moved, and
pinned allowing you to setup your own custom design interface.
Customizable toolbars
Objects
Items such as library pieces or specialty
stitches are now objects, meaning they are selected, moved or
removed as a single item.
Objects "float" over the top of the
background. This means you can move an object without disturbing
the stitches behind it.
Right-click any object and optionally
merge it to the background, allowing you to modify it.
Select any area of your design and turn it into an object, allowing you to
move it as one thing.
Drawing
Basic Stitch Support: Full, Half, Quarter,
Three-Quarter, and Petite, as well as backstitch, French knots and
Beads.
Flexible backstitch mode: Attach lines
anywhere in the grid square.
Automatic Backstitch: Select an area and
have it automatically outlined using backstitches.
Smart Stitch Mode: Quarter, Three quarter
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.
Draw backstitches in point-to-point mode
or tracing mode.
Flood-Fill any area. This can be an empty
area, or an area defined by the same color.
Enhanced Flood-Fill operation uses quarter
stitches when filling an area.
Color-picker tools allows you to pick the
active floss color by picking it out of a pattern.
Multi-Level Undo
Zoom capabilities allow you to magnify any
area of your design.
Edit functions: Cut, Copy Paste, Flip, Rotate any selected area.
Libraries
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.
Create as many libraries as you wish.
A new panel makes displaying and applying
library items easy!
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.
When applied to patterns, library entries are objects. This means you can
move or remove them at any time with ease.
Borders
Create your own custom borders and apply
them to any future pattern.
Borders can be applied inside or around an
existing design.
A Border is an object, meaning you can remove or replace it in any pattern
with ease!
Specialty Stitches
Create your own specialty stitches and use
them them over and over in future patterns.
A new panel makes working with specialty
stitches easier than ever before.
Specialty stitches are objects, meaning you can move or remove them with
ease.
Text
Create your own stitched text alphabets.
Convert any TrueType font into letters in
your patterns.
Letters are objects, meaning you can move, or remove them with ease.
Pattern Notes
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.
Use any icon you wish for your notes. The
icons are embedded in the pattern file itself.
Include a graphic or other picture with
your notes.
Notes are optionally printed in the
pattern information sheet.
A Note panel makes using or displaying
notes easy.
Note Text can include different fonts, tabs, color and even bullets and
indentations.
Printing
Print as symbols, solid blocks, blocks
& Symbols.
Enhanced information sheet prints floss
legend, instructions and pattern notes.
Include a design logo in any design and
have it printed on the information sheet.
Print the pattern legend on the design
grid.
Optionally include the color, manufacturer
ID and description in the legend.
Size the output to a specific
Stitches-Per-Inch setting.
Size the output to a specific number of
pages
Use the Optimal setting to have the
pattern sized to your specific settings, and use as much as the
paper as possible.
Fit-to-single-page printouts
Shaded stitch repeats between pages.
Customizable header and footer for each
printed page and customizable margin settings
Print Preview showing up to 6 pages at a time.
Pattern Display
Display stitches as Color Blocks, Symbols,
Color and Symbols, Stitches or Virtual Stitches.
Display rulers as inches, centimeters or
stitch count.
Status bar provides additional
information.
Display different patterns at the same
time, all with their own display settings.
A new highlighting makes locating selected floss colors a snap!
Palette Entries (Floss)
Blend floss entries by dropping any floss
onto an existing palette entry
Custom Hatches settings allow you to
choose how blended floss entries are displayed
Automatic Symbol Selection
Symbol panel makes changing the symbol or
symbol color for any entry easy.
Optionally, choose symbols by stitch type
for the same palette entry.
Use any TrueType font for Symbols. You can
even use multiple fonts in the same pattern.
Choose any color for any symbol in the
pattern.
Add the same color to the palette multiple times if you wish.
Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP
90 MHz Intel Pentium, AMD Opteron, AMD
Athlon64 or AMD Athlon XP processor
32 MB minimum RAM (96 MB recommended)
130 MB Hard Disk space
800 x 600 or higher resolution display
with 256 colors
CD-ROM drive
Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP
500 MHz or higher processor
128 MB minimum RAM (96 MB recommended)
130 MB Hard Disk space
800 x 600 or higher resolution display
with 256 colors
"PC Stitch 7.0 Professional")
