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Hi, and thanks for your feedback!
I'm currently winding up some more server updates for future growth of the program and help handling the increased usage.
Once I finish these internal changes I'll be back to program updates. One long-awaited feature will be the ability to do final pattern editing before printing.
There will also be an ability to save your work so you could get your settings the way you like and save them. Then you could come back at a later date, load your settings from before, possibly make further changes, create a new pattern, and save the new settings if you like. Time will tell if there will be limits to the number of saved "work" files. I think this will fill the needs you mentioned.
I'll know more about when a bunch of new features will begin rolling out as soon as I finish the system upgrades but rest assured, I'm working on it on our end.
Terry
Hi,
Do you know what software you use to read .pdf files? The process depends on your software. Let me know if you use Adobe Reader for Mac. These instructions should work for that.
Basically when you go to print your pattern using the linked instructions, you need to tell your .pdf program to print it to a single page and tell it to reduce the size to fit.
Let me know what software you use and I'll try to help.
Terry
Kathy,
Hi, I've alerted Terry (Support) to your message. Meanwhile, unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, we don't offer the capability to make cross stitch word patterns...actually, I didn't know there could be such a thing, so please excuse my ignorance!
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Hi, and thanks for your feedback!
I'm currently winding up some more server updates for future growth of the program and help handling the increased usage.
Once I finish these internal changes I'll be back to program updates. One long-awaited feature will be the ability to do final pattern editing before printing.
There will also be an ability to save your work so you could get your settings the way you like and save them. Then you could come back at a later date, load your settings from before, possibly make further changes, create a new pattern, and save the new settings if you like. Time will tell if there will be limits to the number of saved "work" files. I think this will fill the needs you mentioned.
I'll know more about when a bunch of new features will begin rolling out as soon as I finish the system upgrades but rest assured, I'm working on it on our end.
Terry
Buggg66,
Welcome! 
What a cool
design! 
The first
thought that occurred to me is the font is too thin to do more than
blob up, as you can see. What the freePatternWizard isn't (at the
moment) is an editor. It looks at anything made of basic thin lines
and doesn't really know what to do with it.
The font here is actually more suitable to backstitch,
which we don't offer at this time, though it's in our
plans.
The next thing is about your image.
What file format is it in? If it's in jpg, the format will have
shades of other colors in it and extraneous characters you can't
really see just by looking at it. This will confuse the
freePatternWizard, which will take the colors it sees and "report"
them as those other colors, as in different shades of red in this
case.
The best formats to use are gif and
png, because those don't introduce extraneous colors. But you can't
go from a saved jpg to a gif, because the colors are already there
in the file.
Next, are you sending an image
that is pixel-to-stitch, e.g., 50 pixels across = 50 stitches
across? Since the freePatternWizard isn't an actual editor, if you
don't send it an image like that first, it will do its best as it
tries to expand or contract the image, but the results won't be
great.
Finally, you also need to pay
attention to thin lines here, too. If your image is set (for
example) for 50 pixels as opposed to 200, a thinner line or smaller
dot may disappear, being too thin or small for the
freePatternWizard.
The good news is that
it's not at all impossible to work with such an image; mostly, you
need to be mindful of what's going on with the various things
mentioned above for a good result.
Hope that
helps!
GmaMiller,
Welcome!
I'm sorry to
say that capability isn't available at this time. Originally, the
freePatternWizard was designed to figure out the rows automatically
because we were afraid people were going to truncate or skew their
patterns and we wanted to preserve the correct aspect
ratio.
This will be addressed in a future
issue (unfortunately, I don't have a date as to when that will be
available), so for now the only way of compensating is to add
borders to your original image on the left and the right and then
keep working with it until the dimensions are as you want. I
apologize; I know this isn't pretty or a great solution, but until
the capability is available to designate the number of rows, that's
the best way to get to the dimensions you want.
And...a cat? Oooh, do tell! Not that I love cats or
anything (besotted). 
Hi,
Do you know what software you use to read .pdf files? The process depends on your software. Let me know if you use Adobe Reader for Mac. These instructions should work for that.
Basically when you go to print your pattern using the linked instructions, you need to tell your .pdf program to print it to a single page and tell it to reduce the size to fit.
Let me know what software you use and I'll try to help.
Terry
Kathy,
Hi, I've alerted Terry (Support) to your message. Meanwhile, unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, we don't offer the capability to make cross stitch word patterns...actually, I didn't know there could be such a thing, so please excuse my ignorance!
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