The following tables list
the features included with each level or add-on of Pattern
Maker. Use the following links to jump to a table on
this page.
These features
are included in both the Standard and Professional levels.
| FABRIC |
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| Fabric size up to
999x999 full stitches |
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| Fabric options including
color, stitch size, & grid style |
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| DRAWING |
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| Stitches supported:
full, half, quarter, petite, back/straight, specialty (over
50), French Knots, beads |
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| Flexible back stitch and
straight stitch |
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| Draw back stitches in
either point-to-point or tracing mode |
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| Can repeat the initial
orientation of a quarter or half stitch when drawing a
sequence of stitches |
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| Text entry feature
including 50 alphabets by Kooler Design Studio |
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| Text entry feature using
TrueType fonts. Supports full and petite stitches. |
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| EDITING |
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| Rectangular shaped selection tool |
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| Cut, copy, paste, flip, rotate, flood fill,
fill back-stitched area |
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| Selected stitches 'float' above non-selected
stitches and are visible while dragging to allow easy
positioning |
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| Enhanced flood fill tool which automatically
uses quarter stitches |
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| Center a selection horizontally or vertically |
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| Eyedropper tool for displaying and/or
selecting the stitch color and/or stitch type of a stitch
pointed-to via the mouse |
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| Zoom tool for magnifying a selected area of
the design |
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| Multi-level undo of edits (up to 100) |
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| FLOSS PALETTE |
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| Up to 240 colors per design |
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Floss/thread brands include:
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DMC®
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Anchor®
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J&P Coats
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Appleton Crewel and Tapestry Wool
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Au Ver A Soie, Soie d'Alger®
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Coats Puppets
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Caron Collection ( Antica,
Impressions®, Rachel,
Watercolours®, Waterlilies®,
Wildflowers®)
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Danish Flower Thread
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DMC Cebelia Crochet
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DMC Color Variations
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DMC Light Effect
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DMC Linen
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DMC Perle Cotton
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DMC Tapestry Wool
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DMC Rayon
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Eterna Silk(TM) ( MiniTwist, Silk Twist, Stranded)
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Finca Mouline
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Finca Perle Cotton
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The Gentle Art ( Sampler Threads, Simply Shaker)
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Ginnie Thompson Flower Thread®
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Needle Necessities ( Empress Silk, Floss, French Wool, Madras, Opalescence, Pearl
5, Pearl 8, Spring II, Velour 18)
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Needlepaints
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Olde Willow Stitchery
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Paternayan Crewel, Persian, and Rug
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Rainbow Gallery Splendor
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Weeks Dye Works(TM)
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Kreinik ( Blending Filament, Braid, Cable, Cord, Ribbon, Japan, Ombre, Silk
Bella(TM), Silk Mori(TM), Silk Mori Milkpaint(TM), Silk
Serica(TM))
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Mill Hill® ( Glass Seed Bead, Antique Glass Seed Bead, Petite Glass Seed Bead, Frosted Glass Seed Bead, Crayon Seed Bead, Pebble Glass Bead, Magnifica Glass Bead)
Note that while we strive to supply
color representations that are as accurate as possible when
displayed on a computer, it not possible to perfectly
represent the color of floss/thread. For floss/thread
that is variegated, over dyed, or hand dyed, the program
represents the thread using a single solid color. It
is especially important with these brands that you have
actual color samples available when you are selecting colors
for a design. |
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Machine embroidery thread brands:
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ARC (Poly, Rayon)
- Brother®
- DMC® Machine Embroidery
- FUFU
- Isacord
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Janome
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Kingstar
- Madeira® ( Poly Neon, Rayon)
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Marathon ( Poly, Rayon)
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Mettler ( Silky Sheen, Poly Sheen, Embroidery)
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Robison-Anton ( Polyester, Rayon)
- Sulky® Rayon
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| Blended colors (up to 4 colors per blend) |
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| Interactive palette options bar (changes to
the design are visible as the palette is edited) |
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| Automatic symbol selection |
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| Cross-stitch symbol font provided (224
symbols) |
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| Can use any TrueType font |
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| Can use symbols from more than one font in a
design |
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| Stitch usage summary which shows a tally of
stitches used and estimated amount of floss needed |
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| Customizable stitch display thickness (per
strand setting) |
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| Strand selection per palette color and per
stitch type (up to 12 strands) |
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| Symbol selection per stitch type |
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| Symbol color, size, and style selection for
full, half, quarter, petite, French knots, and bead
stitches. |
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| Symbol options for back, straight, specialty,
French knot, and bead stitches |
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| Symbol options including color-behind symbols
and triangular/square color blocks for quarter stitches |
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| Palette note per color and stitch type |
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| Color brand conversion using editable
conversion tables and by color matching |
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| Can add same color to a palette multiple
times for allowing different settings such as strand count |
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| IMAGE IMPORTING (more
info) |
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| Image formats: BMP, PCX, GIF, WMF, JPEG, TIFF
plus more |
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| Scan directly into the program using a TWAIN
compliant scanner |
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| Two methods for importing: Importing Wizard
and Interactive Importing. Wizard method provides a
step-by-step approach that is good while learning the
program. Interactive method allows options to be
accessed in any order with the results of a change being
visible immediately. |
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| Converts image into full stitches. |
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| Can include image as an underlay for manual
tracing of the image |
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| Import into a new design or a selected area
of an existing design |
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| Multiple palette options: Import using a
selected brand of floss; Import using a user-selected
palette of color; Import using the current palette of an
existing design (when importing into an existing design). |
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| User-selectable number of colors per
design. Use up to 240 color per design. |
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| Enhanced color-reduction techniques for
reducing the number of colors needed for good results |
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| Background selection tool for selecting areas
of the image that should not be imported |
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| Foreground selection tool for selecting areas
of the image that should be given more priority when
selecting colors. |
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| Image adjustments (color, saturation,
contrast, brightness, & cropping) |
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| Grid alignment tool for aligning the grid of
an image to the grid of the new design. Also
calculates the required pattern size. |
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| Fine control of sizing and positioning for
underlay images when manually aligning the image with the
design grid |
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| DISPLAY |
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| Display design as stitches, symbols, or
solids |
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| Detailed design information display |
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| Rulers for displaying the stitch position |
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| Display a pattern using multiple windows with
each having independent settings |
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| Open multiple designs at a time |
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| Edge outlining of stitches for enhanced
readability. |
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| PRINTING |
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| Print design as stitches, symbols, or solids |
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| Detailed design information print-out |
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| Print preview |
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| Stitch numbering along edges of chart |
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| Shaded stitch repeats between pages |
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| Selectable header/footer, and selectable page
margins |
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| ADDITIONAL |
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| Color Management support for improving the
presentation of color. When color profiles are
available and installed for your monitor and printer, this
feature allows you to display a soft proof or print a hard
proof of a design. |
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| Selectable toolbars for providing many
options only a click away |
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| Pattern preview in File Open dialog box for
making it easy to locate an existing design |
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| Optional re-opening of designs that were open
when the program was last used |
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| Library feature (organize pattern elements
for easy reuse) |
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| Update wizard for assisting in the download
and installation of program updates |
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| Complete built-in help |
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| 30 professionally designed patterns by The
Vermillion Stitchery |
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| 100 clipart designs from Kooler Design
Studio |
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These features are only included in Professional level.
| DRAWING |
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| Edit and create specialty stitches; includes
a curve drawing tool for creating high-quality curved
shapes; includes capability to define stitches that
can be easily repeated to fill areas. (more
info) |
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| ADVANCED EDITING |
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| Free-hand selection tool for making
arbitrarily-shaped selections |
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| Limit colors included in a selection |
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| Limit stitch types included in a selection |
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| Replace the color of selected stitches |
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| Replace the type of selected stitches |
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| Fill the empty area of a selection using
chosen stitch types |
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| Auto-outline a selected area using
backstitches: either between the fabric and the stitches,
between stitches of different colors, or around the
selection. |
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| Paste into a selection using a previously
copied area of the design to produce a patterned
effect. Can paste into the used area, the unused area,
or the entire area of the selection. Automatically
uses partial stitches. |
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| PALETTE |
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| Highlighting feature for locating stitches of
the selected color |
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| DESIGN
LAYOUT (more
info) |
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| Create page layouts using a built-in word
processor |
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| Insert one or more chart objects into a
layout for representing all or some portion of the
design. Selectable formatting for the chart object. |
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| Insert one or more floss tables into a
layout. Selectable column contents and
formatting. Selectable table formatting including
border style, cell color, and text formatting. |
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| Insert graphics objects such as logos or
diagrams |
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| Insert pattern information fields |
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| Insert OLE objects from other applications |
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| Insert other user-specified text using
paragraph formatting or table formatting |
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| All layout objects and information
automatically updated when design changes |
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| Supports multiple document sections with
independent section formatting (columns, page size, page
orientation, margins) |
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| Supports the creation of custom layout
templates which can be re-used for new designs. |
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| Export a layout as an RTF file for importing
into other applications |
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| GRAPHICS EXPORTING (more
info) |
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| Export design as a graphics file (for the
chart) and RTF file (for the pattern information) |
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| Supports 10 graphics file formats including
BMP, JPEG, TIFF, TIFF CMYK, and WMF |
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| Export design using OLE |
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These features are only included with the Machine Embroidery
Add-on.
