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Pecularity of Pattern Maker.

I am not sure how important this is, but I have found a pecularity in Pattern Maker. I had produced a pattern, and sent it to my friend as an

*.pat file. I have an old version of Pattern Maker; several years old. He has a new version, and I believe the Professional version. What we found was the symbols his version produces, are different from mine. As a further test of this, I have just bought myself a new lap top. I have downloaded the Pattern Viewer onto it. I sent myself a pattern, and this time the two sets of symbols are the same. I am not sure what this all means.

-- Jim Cripwell. From Canada. Land of the Key Bird. This creature of doom flies over the frozen tundra in winter, shrieking its dreaded call; "Key, Key, Key, Key rist but it's cold!!"

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F.James Cripwell
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It guess it just means you have to be aware of version differences whenever exchanging files. Probably the program improved and has more symbols in the newer version. Your viewer only reads and doesn't produce symbols, your friend's version does. Grea

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vlerk

Pardon the intrusion. If you go to

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look to the right-hand side of the page, there is a support section forVersion 3 and prior, as well as Version 4. If I recall correctly, there wassome sort of update on the floss colors, and perhaps there was a change infonts in one of the upgrades.HTH,Carey (fading back to the sidelines......)

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Carey N.

There have been several font files distributed with PatternMaker over the years. The symbols don't always "line up" between the new and old fonts plus many, many symbols have been added.

Try sending your friend the font file to install then to specify in PatternMaker to use that font when viewing your pattern file.

Look under the pulldown menus to find out which font your version of PatternMaker is using as its default font, then copy it from your font directory. It's a TrueType font, so is compatible with all versions of Windows past version 3.0 (not to mention Linux XWindow).

Hope this solves your problem.

Nyssa, geekette At River's End

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Nyssa

They have updated the symbol "library". The new version contains more than one symbol library that you can choose from.

Not sure about the viewer situation, but it may be set up to read whatever symbol library was originally used. ???

Dianne

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Dianne Lewandowski

There have been at least 3 symbols sets associated with Pattern Maker versions. PM4 uses a "font" called Cross Stitch 3; PM3 uses Cross Stitch 2. Some of the symbols are the same, but aren't necessarily in the same keyboard position. PM4 will read older versions, including the charts produced with the 16-bit version of PM3 that's loaded on my Win3x machine. Darla Sacred cows make great hamburgers. Picture Trail Gallery:

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Darla

Thanks, Darla, and everyone else who responded. I *think* I understand things a little better now.

-- Jim Cripwell. From Canada. Land of the Key Bird. This creature of doom flies over the frozen tundra in winter, shrieking its dreaded call; "Key, Key, Key, Key rist but it's cold!!"

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F.James Cripwell

Ibet it`s just that his computer doesn`t have that particular font installed and just picks the nearest iot can finbd. Just send him the file for the correct font. Had this happen to me some years ago, and had to ask the originator for the "Lynda" font - easy as that.

Pat P

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Pat EAXStitch

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