Macintosh beading software

Could those of you who use beading software for the Macintosh share the
pros and cons of the various programs available for Mac OSX? Are there
any that let you fill in beads in a direction as if you were sewing,
not just in a straight grid?

Thanks, CJ

cdjeff wrote:
Could those of you who use beading software for the Macintosh share the
pros and cons of the various programs available for Mac OSX? Are there
any that let you fill in beads in a direction as if you were sewing,
not just in a straight grid?

Thanks, CJ

I got Beadscape for Mac, from Beyond Beadery
(http://www.beyondbeadery.com) . It's pretty cool beans. It lets you
do loom or off-loom stitches, and it lets you set the offset by hand if
you need to do that. It's a Classic program so you do need to be a
little bit familiar with Classic if you are used to running OsX. This
is the only real beading software for the Mac that I found, that is
devoted only to beading and that comes preloaded with a variety of
different beads, including Delicas. You might also take a look at
MacStitch from Ursa Software, it is a cross stitching program that does
have beads as a feature. It comes with the Mill Hill beads preloaded
and seems like a good software if you want to incorporate beads into
cross stitching, embroidery, sewing, etc. You can see it at
http://www.ursasoftware.com . Lastly, if you use Virtual PC, there are
more softwares available for PC, but I had no luck there as I have found
that heavy graphic-intensive work in XP under VPC bogs my whole system
down and is more trouble than it is worth (I have a 1.2GHz iBook).



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