Been trying to figure this out ...

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You could email Carol and ask her... :)

Here's my guess. It's probably not all that hard, but to do something more elaborate than saving your design in EQ or QuiltPro, you'd want to hire someone to get it into a program that would do what you want. Certainly not rocket science -- I used to do that kind of thing many, many moons ago. But to do it for one person, who isn't going to sell their designs, the cost could be a bit more than you'd want to pay.

My first recommendation would be to go the EQ/QuiltPro route. Me? I'm actually low tech when it comes to design -- I make photocopies of various sizes (enlarge and reduce is my friend!) and play with the sheets. Design ideas I keep in page protectors in a binder, sorted by use (borders, blocks, etc.) It's fast, easy, cheap, and it works. What more could I want? *grin*

I aim high, but not THAT high! ROFLOL

A quilt from LN? Di

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. What more could I want? *grin*

She probably did what you'd need to do -- hire a programmer to make the program that displays, resizes, etc. (Or it could be that one of the quilting design software companies, who had already hired the programmer, contracted with her to provide content for the CD.)

For finding the design you want, you could do a simple index-type thing really quickly with an HTML format. There would be several pages of thumbnails and clicking on a thumbnail would open a full-sized picture of the design. If you have PhotoShop, you don't even need to know HTML to set this up! You'd just use the File/Automate/Web Photo Gallery command. You put all the "stuff" in the same folder, use this command (telling it where the folder you've put everything in, is, and the name of the folder where you want the finished stuff to go), then it does it! It's very slick, and there are a bunch of already-programmed page styles you can use.

Once you find the design you like, though, you'd still have to open it up in whatever you created it in to resize it.

Dragonfly

Am afraid I don't own EQ or Quilt Pro. Mostly I just use good ole Windows Paint and Paint Shop Pro, and I generally end up saving things in a .bmp format. The clarity retained is marvelous. I can repaint or manipulate the graphic endlessly from there, and not have to spend any time cleaning it up, but the file size of all these bmp's gets to be quite large ... s'ok for putting onto CD's, but floppy's will only hold a few at a time.

This computer stuff sure does teach a person that manipulation is truly an art form in itself, eh? I don't think I'll ever see any one program that "does it all". Thank goodness for import/export and copy/paste! *grins*

Kathy, I like that idea of asking Carol but think I'll keep plugging away at this end of it awhile longer before I go interrupting her.

I can see where the cost would be tremendous in having someone do this for me. Knowledge/skills are expensive, and usually worth it ... even if only for the amount of time that it saves others.

I'm still keeping my distance fromEQ/QuiltPro ... although not because they wouldn't be a joy to own and play with, 'cause I'd have a blast (and they'd be waaaaaaay lots more fun to operate than my wild accounting program).

Hey, I use your low tech technique as well. :^) It amazes me that I don't mind spending my $$$ on paper items (copy paper, books, magazines, patterns that reach out and grab me because they can't live without me, folders, etc.), and yet I'm consistently refusing to purchase more 'puter programs. Sometimes I just don't figure me out. S'no wonder DH can't either! *LOL*

DeB Shaw Queen of the *Northern*Lights* (gotta' dash back to work ... DH will be looking for his lunchpail soon ... and where'd I leave that mosquito repellant at?)

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