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Question about software

I have been reading and searching online but almost all the posts I find are from 1999 and have dead links in them. Here is my question. Can a few quilters who are familiar with the various programs tell me which one might be the most useful to me for floor tile design.

Background: I have a mosaico hidraulico cement tile business ( the site is

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) and if occurred to me thatquilt software might be really helpful for me to assist customers bylaying out a floor pattern, with double borders and such, for them andemailing them an image. I also think it might be helpful in floor tile design development. The multi-color patterns must tessellate and make interesting patterns using various rotations of the individual squares.

Until now I use various programs, CorelDraw, Photoshop Elements, MSPublisher and none of them do it all for me, I have to switch back and forth alot. Publisher is nice in that it will let you do copy/ paste of tile design and each image is a separate object and can be rotated w/out all its previous incarnations rotating too. But I have to move every tile individually to try different layouts.

I saw a brief sniplet of TV today that showed Electric Quilt in action and it looked intreuging but I wonder if ther are others that might cost less or be open source and simply do what I need them to do (no fabric estimates, no foundations stuff,) just import images and play w/ the square tile shapes and export as image.

Thanks for all advice, glad to see some people still use Usenet...Lundy

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fortmorganinc
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I can't help you since I don't have a program, but I find this to be a very interesting idea. I sure hope someone will be able to steer you in the right direction. Gen

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Gen

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jennellh

Each program has its strengths and weaknesses. I do stained glass and sometimes use GlassEye, a program specifically made for stained glass work, EQ6 and just plain old paper and colored pencils, depending on what it is I'm trying to accomplish. None is "cheap" except for the pencils, but I don't know of any freeware that will do what you are looking for. When I invested in GlassEye and EQ6, and I use them both interchangeably for quilting and glass design, I considered it to be just that...an investment. You have to determine how much the time you spend working up designs against the cost of the program. I know GlassEye lets you try the program for free for 30 days and has different levels of purchase depending on your ultimate needs. That might be the best fit.

Diana H - Gulph Mills, PA

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PhillyQuilter

Thanks all for your suggestions. I realize that software is an investment and can offset a lot of time, but I have so many irons-in- the-fire at present (house under construction) , new business, another new biz, that I have so little time for fiddling around w/ software and learning the pluses and minuses. I always like to ask those who use the software what they think first. Plus I am affected by this down economy in a heavy handed way. I may just stick w/ MS Publisher for present for putting together whole floor layouts and look to the quilt software at a future time.

Another question, did all that info that was online from EQ enthusiasts on AOL homepages get transferred elsewhere before AOL shut it all down ? I was digging around thru quilting discussions and found a ton of (now) dead links. Thx, Lundy

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LagoonLady

EQ has it's own website,

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monthly newsletter- sign up at web siteand a internet group called "Info Eq" -I get the Daily Digest version- sign up at web site

They also still support EQ5

Jane in NE Ohio

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Roy/Jane Kay

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