digitizing software

To be honest, myself and a few others in my familt paid the $300-400 for their picture software and it was the most horrible piece of unfriendly software any of us had ever seen. I threw three copies of it out last year in order to clean up the house for moving and again, became annoyed on the over $1000 wasted on such crap. And they wonder why people pirate. It sometimes matches the promoters dishonesty, to say the least. For $30-$40, I wouldn't expect much or care.

Now, past performance is no indicator of future expectations but if the same software people are there you can expect, unfriendly, muddleheaded layouts, styles and techniques. They belong in the Wordperfect lstyle looney bin.

Just my opinion. I have seen Corel demonstated at shows and it lacked some basic things and yet, when I raised the issues they reported "That isn't needed, ours is better" and other stupid ideas of that flavour. Can't remember what issues now...sorry. Also, this was early days also for them.

Get a good demonstration of it and take somebody with digitizing experience before you spend big bucks. Better yet, see if somebody has a "loaner" copy or a pirated copy you can try out. Pay for a proper copy if you like it after a month. Trouble iwth complex software, you will not know the fine details (where the difference is) for a long time of usage, so 30 day guarantees are useless also.

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Hi, Please do disregard the crap Gymmy Bob//Bengi has attributed to your question. Be very sure GB has no actual possession of _any_ knowledge on this topic. He C&Ps all his stuff from posts made by other people or from web pages. The links have some of his 'work' throughout Usenet over recent years.

To get a full answer to your question you could subscribe to and read the NG. Lurking for a while is maybe a good idea before you decide to post something as a "How Do I", the traffic there will answer many of your questions by simply reading advice. Take this with you. Graphics and Embroidery Digitising are two very separate disciplines. Digitising does rely very heavily on crisp clear Graphics, hence some software producers attempt to marry the two. Corel being just one. Others attempt to "fix" Graphics. I believe you will find that to succeed one does need to be proficient in both..as separate skills.

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Using all the computers, with all the browsers and all the newsproviders tonight, are we Tazhole?

Why are you coming out of the school closet and being recognized, like a real man, for once, Mr. Potshot? Most figure you are being chased by the law somewhere. You certainly act like an OCD, ADHD criminal type.

Do the guys in the white coats know what you do in that room?

Have you tried the Embird program? I have 2 embroidery machines, a Pfaff & a new Babylock, and have used Embird w/success for what I've wanted to do. There is a 30-day free trial and it is very economical, IMHO. Emily

I use Embird Studio, which is an add-on to the basic Embird program. The basic program allows you to manipulate images (turn, resize, combine, etc.) and the Studio plug-in allows you to import images that you trace using the drawing tools. As far as I know, there's no free lunch with digitizing. The auto-digitizers are problematic. There is a learning curve with Embird, but there are tutorials available on the web, or you can do what I did and just play with it until you figure it out. Embird and its plug-ins are relatively inexpensive and worth a look.

Iris

Hello Pam,

I work on a Tajima machine at work. Its the only Embroidery machine I've worked on so I cant compare it to others, but from what I hear its a Cadilac. As for software I use Tajima XI DG/ML that is made by

as far as I know its one of the best most complete software forthe job. And its of course not limited to work on machines with itsname. Its has an impresive list of formats it can convert to. I'velearned on this software and I like it alot. I've tried shareware anda few others I could try out on the internet and didnt like them.>From what I hear this software is quite quite expensive tho. But youcould have other peole digitize for you, that is what my boss used todo before they got me to do the designs for him. I hear that CorelDrawings is also pretty good software.Hope this helps

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Forgot to mention... as far as I know, there is not "Auto Digitizer" that just converts a picture to desing for machine perfectly. Now I have only had experience with my software... and nothing in there does that. I have to do the designing work to make the machine process it.

There are programs that do Auto-digitizing. But you need a good clean graphic with limited colors and clear edges. Some do an adequate job, but if you want professional results, you will need to manually punch the design.

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