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Veronica,

Welcome!

Please do let us know if you have any questions.

Also, feel free to share pictures of your work so we can drool!

Also, there are a lot of stray pixels which are probably introduced by changing the image size and/or the quality and makeup of the original image. For example, if taken from a printed form, images sometimes are screen printed and are made up of dots. These dots would be interpreted as different color pixels. One setting you might try is to turn on "Anti-alias" in section 8 of the program.

Just a few ideas.

Terry

In beading, if you set a preference to not show the beads on the cover sheet of the pdf, the beads also go away on the pattern pages. The beads should still show on the pdf pattern pages regardless of this setting.
When using manual color choices, the program sometimes only chooses a couple colors, and sometimes not even ones you've chosen. This is more prevalent in beading.
The program sometimes introduces a gray color mainly when the image has no black and/or white.
A couple other color choosing issues will be fixed.

Then hopefully during October we'll be turning on a new internal graphics engine and at that point pdf charts will be exactly pixel-for-pixel the same as what you see on the screen. Currently there can be a difference. The new engine has had extensive testing with one of our corporate clients and works well. This new engine will also eliminate future color-choosing bugs.

Thanks to those who have sent me reports, images and settings. Like I say, some problems only show up in specific combinations of settings. I want to get these bugs fixed before starting to enable new things!

I'll update everyone as I fix each bug.

Terry

tnelson,

Welcome!

We've been testing and enhancing this new feature but don't have a date yet for when it'll be available.

During the testing, we've come up with new things that we feel would be great enhancements and that involves more coding and testing.

One other reason as to why it hasn't happened quite yet (and we first spoke of this feature probably 2 years ago), is that of browser compatibility. As time goes on more and more browsers add new capabilities that will support these new features.

We started adding a few Premier Features back in October. We don't want anyone who even pays $2.99 for a year to not be able to use a feature because of browser incompatibility. And we don't want to have to tell people that they need to upgrade their operating system or browser to run something.

I can tell you that the live edit has been near the top of priorities.

Melanie

Melanie,

Yup that was the problem