KXStitch/Features

Under Construction

This is a new page, currently under construction!

The detailed feature list and other planned features is shown here.

Creation of new patterns
- User defined size
- Selection of material type (not yet supported)
- Selection of material colour
- Insertion of a multiple background images for tracing
- Importing of various image formats
- Importing options allow
  - Limiting the number of colours
  - Limiting colours to a specific palette
  - Scaling to a finished size
  - Cropping of the image (not yet supported)
  - Support for transparency in images
  - Allow the use of fractional stitches
Editing of existing patterns, Editing tools will include
- Open and filled rectangles
- Open and filled ellipses
- Filled poly-lines
- Painting
- Lines
- Erasing stitches, knots and backstitches
- Colour selection from existing stitches
- Swapping two colours
- Replace one colour with another
- Text with user defined fonts and sizes
- Cut, copy and paste of rectangular regions. Stitch type and colour masks can be used to limit selections. You may also exclude backstitches and knots
- Undo, Redo with full history
- Mirroring, horizontally and vertically. Stitch type and colour masks can be used to limit selections. You may also exclude backstitches and knots
- Rotation, 90, 180 and 270 degrees anti clockwise. Stitch type and colour masks can be used to limit selections. You may also exclude backstitches and knots
- Resizing of the canvas
  - Extend canvas left, top, right, bottom
  - Cropping canvas to pattern
  - Cropping canvas to selection
  - Inserting rows and columns
  - Centre the pattern on the canvas
- Conversion between floss schemes
Use of standard floss pallets, DMC, Anchor and Madeira.
Create customized floss pallets
Create new colours for any floss pallet
Save / Load current palette
Use of standard stitches
Creation of custom stitches (not yet supported)
Pattern library manager
- Create new library patterns
- Insert library patterns into a design
- Export selected patterns (not yet supported)
- Import patterns from an external source (not yet supported)
- Drag and drop from the library to the pattern
- Assign key press to patterns for use with the Alphabet tool
Free use of backstitching
Printing of completed patterns and floss keys with fully customised layouts
Mapping of symbols to flosses
Specify the number of threads for stitches and backstitches
Calibration of floss colours