Help regarding picture to pattern software.
I am asking the help of any rctners who use picture to pattern software, other than Pattern Maker, which I have. First a little background. For years I have wanted to do THE experiment. Get lots of people to take lots of patterns, calculate how much floss of each colour is required according to a formula I am developing, make up a kit, and stitch the pattern. Then I could find out how close I came with the calculations. Until very recently this dream was so far off my radar screen, that I had stopped thinking about it. Now, all of a sudden, it might just be only over the horizon. However, there is one sine qua non that I must have. I must be able to translate patterns in the picture to pattern software, into inputs that can be read by spread sheets. The formats for the pattern making software are all secret, so there is no way anyone can write a program to open them. However, the program to do what I want after the file is open, is utterly trivial. I wrote to Scott Horton of Hobbyware, the owners of Pattern Maker, and to say the least he was uncooperative. What I thought I would do is to write similar letters to other software producers, and see if they might be more helpful. I believe the guy for PCStitch is named something like David Peterson. The help I am requesting is for any rctner who has such software to write to me giving the email address of the company. You can post in on rctn if you like, but I doubt if anyone else is interested. I know I could Google this, but I am not very good at that. TIA. -- Jim Cripwell. The gods do not subtract from the allotted span of one's life, any time that is spent in stitching. Adapted from a sign on The Cobb, Lyme Regis, England. |
Jim,
PC Stitch does not show an email or even a web address. Snail mail is M&R Technologies PO Box 9403 Wright Bros. Ranch Dayton, Ohio, 45409 937 294 0089 Julie in Hondo "F.James Cripwell" wrote in message ... I am asking the help of any rctners who use picture to pattern software, other than Pattern Maker, which I have. First a little background. For years I have wanted to do THE experiment. Get lots of people to take lots of patterns, calculate how much floss of each colour is required according to a formula I am developing, make up a kit, and stitch the pattern. Then I could find out how close I came with the calculations. Until very recently this dream was so far off my radar screen, that I had stopped thinking about it. Now, all of a sudden, it might just be only over the horizon. However, there is one sine qua non that I must have. I must be able to translate patterns in the picture to pattern software, into inputs that can be read by spread sheets. The formats for the pattern making software are all secret, so there is no way anyone can write a program to open them. However, the program to do what I want after the file is open, is utterly trivial. I wrote to Scott Horton of Hobbyware, the owners of Pattern Maker, and to say the least he was uncooperative. What I thought I would do is to write similar letters to other software producers, and see if they might be more helpful. I believe the guy for PCStitch is named something like David Peterson. The help I am requesting is for any rctner who has such software to write to me giving the email address of the company. You can post in on rctn if you like, but I doubt if anyone else is interested. I know I could Google this, but I am not very good at that. TIA. -- Jim Cripwell. The gods do not subtract from the allotted span of one's life, any time that is spent in stitching. Adapted from a sign on The Cobb, Lyme Regis, England. |
Silly me...here it is for PC Stitch...
www.pcstitch.com i guess they have a link... Julie in Hondo "F.James Cripwell" wrote in message ... I am asking the help of any rctners who use picture to pattern software, other than Pattern Maker, which I have. First a little background. For years I have wanted to do THE experiment. Get lots of people to take lots of patterns, calculate how much floss of each colour is required according to a formula I am developing, make up a kit, and stitch the pattern. Then I could find out how close I came with the calculations. Until very recently this dream was so far off my radar screen, that I had stopped thinking about it. Now, all of a sudden, it might just be only over the horizon. However, there is one sine qua non that I must have. I must be able to translate patterns in the picture to pattern software, into inputs that can be read by spread sheets. The formats for the pattern making software are all secret, so there is no way anyone can write a program to open them. However, the program to do what I want after the file is open, is utterly trivial. I wrote to Scott Horton of Hobbyware, the owners of Pattern Maker, and to say the least he was uncooperative. What I thought I would do is to write similar letters to other software producers, and see if they might be more helpful. I believe the guy for PCStitch is named something like David Peterson. The help I am requesting is for any rctner who has such software to write to me giving the email address of the company. You can post in on rctn if you like, but I doubt if anyone else is interested. I know I could Google this, but I am not very good at that. TIA. -- Jim Cripwell. The gods do not subtract from the allotted span of one's life, any time that is spent in stitching. Adapted from a sign on The Cobb, Lyme Regis, England. |
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