June 1, 2001:
PM Stitch Creator 2.0 released!

http://www.stoik.com/stitch

PM Stitch Creator is the software that allows you to prepare your own counted cross-stitch patterns. Program automatically converts your digital pictures into stitch patterns optimized for specified floss palette, or you can create patterns from scratch with virtual needles and other tools like color fill, eraser, or text. Stitch patterns can be viewed on screen and printed as stitch work, or chart together with color key and material list.

What’s New in PM Stitch Creator 2.0

The development of second version of PM Stitch Creator was driven by huge volume of feedback obtained from users of first release. We gratefully collected hundreds of suggestions from individual users worldwide as well as the wish lists from our regional distributors. The features that we finally selected and implemented in second version significantly enhance the power, usability, and ease of use which made the PM Stitch Creator so popular among hobbyists all over the world.

NEW things you can do:

- Print design as a chart of colored blocks
- Print designs as chart of colored blocks with color symbols
- Print design over up to 100 pages. The result is that there is virtually no limit for chart grid step and even extremely large designs will be readable
- Export designs and material list to a graphic file to post them on Internet or to use as illustration in any document
- Save, edit, and re-use your custom color palettes. The palettes may include flosses of different brands.
- Save design without original image to reduce size for easier sharing.
- Choose canvas background color to get more realistic view of stitch pattern
- Copy and paste selected parts of stitchwork

Things you can do BETTER now:

- Set option to print marked grid lines as well as row and column numbers
- Convert image to stitch design flawlessly. Mapping of original image colors to thread colors is more accurate now, in particular when the number of colors is low.
- Sort symbols assigned to floss colors according to color lightness– this will make symbol charts more easily readable.
- The program now displays stitches in more realistic colors in all zooming levels

Things that make your work EASIER and more effective:

- Color selection is much easier; you can pick color by its hue, catalog number, or name
- You can manually assign symbol to color - You can access most usable commands with right-click context menu
- In drawing mode right-click changes your pen to eraser.
- If you choose tool to draw rectangle or ellipse keep SHIFT key pressed to draw squares and circles
- If you run Insert command with CTRL key pressed, the picture or pattern will be inserted in arbitrary shaped selection without distortion.

Things that make your work a PLEASURE:

- New redesigned graphical interface. All visual elements are easily understandable
- You can switch the program looks on the fly, from graphical interface to standard Windows application interface and back.
- Switching between various view modes (pattern, color blocks, symbol chart) is much faster. The redrawing of color blocks for example is now 2-5 times faster.

For more details see http://www.stoik.com/stitch

PM Stitch Creator 2.0 is available for purchase (credit card, check, mail order, wire transfer) from our site for $49

Upgrade from first version and from ANY OTHER STOIK product is just $29

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