When one buys a pattern in a store or in a magazine, one is stuck with the way the designer/publisher prints the pattern. When one uses a computer to either assist one to create a pattern, or generate a pattern, one has control, to some extent, as to how the pattern is printed out. One is limited by the options given by the designers of the software. My latest pattern, the false color radar image of a hurricane, was produced from Pattern Maker. I used the latest version of Pattern Viewer to print the pattern. I find I like big symbols and lots of pages, so I can choose that option. I also have numbered axes. One thing I have learned how to use, and I now find, with my way of following patterns, to be *very* useful, is 3 rows or columns of faint synbols at the edges of some pages. Let me describe this in some detail. My pattern has 12 pages. Page
1 is the top left hand side, and has no faint symbols. Page 2 is the next one horizontally, and has 3 columns of faint symbols on the left hand side. Similarly pages 3 and 4 going horizintally. Page 5 is vertically below page 1, and has 3 faint rows at the top of the pattern. Page 6, horizontal from page 5, has 3 faint rows at the top of the page and 3 faint columns at the left hand side of the page. And so on to page 12. The option I *think* I would like is to be able to reverse this, and have page 12 printed with no faint symbols. Then reverse the process so page 1 has 3 rows and columns of faint symbols at the bottom and right hand side. In other words, I would print out two separate versions of the same pattern. To get this would need a change in the software of Pattern Viewer, and I know Scott Horton is not keen to do this sort of thing. I was wondering if anyone else had thoughts on this. There is no use making suggestions of altering software unless it has wide appeal. I could, of course, go to MS Paint, flip the original picture, put it through Pattern Maker, and hope it produces an *identical* pattern. However, my guess is that this is unlikely to happen. TIA.-- Jim Cripwell. A volante tribe of bards on earth are found,/ who, while the flattering zephyrs round them play,/ on "coignes of vantage" build their nests of clay;/ how quickly from that aery hold unbound,/ dust for oblivion!/ To the solid ground/ of nature trusts the mind that builds for aye. Wordsworth.