Embroidery designs

We just purchased a large quantity of embroidery designs through E-Bay. They are all in dst format which doesn't present a huge problem in that we have Embird and can reformat them. The problem is that the colours are all off, for example, the same character might be 4 different colours in four different designs, and for the most part, none of the colours are what they should be. Embird has five colour pallettes in the program, none of them Tajima (.dst). Does anyone know of an easy way to change these colours? Is there a Tajima colour pallette that can be loaded into Embird?

Any and all suggestions welcomed,

Thanks

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Gordon Reid
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Unfortunately, there can't be any such thing as a Tajima palette; DST files are intended for commercial use where there is an associated document that gives the color chart for each design.

"Home" design formats contain their own color information. DST and some other commercial formats only have the information about when to change to the next color.

Most software assigns an arbitrary color palette to these files, usually starting with Black and Green - all you can tell is that the area shown in black will be the first part stitched.

A .hus or .pes design might contain its color information in a form like COLOR 7; stitches ; COLOR 3; stitches meaning that it starts with .hus palette color number 7, stitches an area, then switches to color #3. The same design in .dst might contain this info: Change Thread Command; stitches; Change Thread Command; stitches

So, you see you were wrong -- DST *DOES* present a huge problem - particularly if you don't even have images of what the sewed-out designs should look like.

- Herb

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Herb

Ok, I do have a huge problem. Thanks for the information.

Gord

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Gordon Reid

If you are using a recent (2003) version of Embird, our Thread Color Conversion Software (MyThreadBox) lets you export palette files directly into Embird to colorize those pesky DST's with the threads or palettes of your choice - we also keep a discount purchase link for newsgroup folks. Main site address -

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Scott - MyThreadBox S/W

MyThreadbox might be an impressive piece of software. But it doesn't have ESP, and while it might be able to change the Black/Green/Orange sequence to something else, it can do nothing to help determine which colors should be used in what sequence for any given design.

If the user has any ideas (or simply experiments with a design), threadbox will do no more to help than plain vanilla embird (or any other embroidery program).

Other than allowing the user to select only those colors that they have the thread for - which your program does quite well.

- Herb

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Herb

Sort of true, Herb - no doubt most of those DST's have some kind of key document giving color stops and colors from someone's palette - if he has that, then you do your conversions into the thread line of your choice (using MyThreadBox and your own thread stash colors), then export a text file that embird reads and uses as a palette file for that one design - works like a charm...

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Scott - MyThreadBox S/W

Agreed. In this case, it's those key documents that the OP didn't get..

But I'm happy that we've given you a legitimate opportunity to describe your great product!

- Herb

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Herb

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