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Whenever I use Digitizer (EasyDesign) to resize a design with specialized fill stitches, they always seem to turn into weave stitches. Why does it do this? This is a common occurrence when resizing designs. Embossed fills are achieved by varying the lengths of the weave stitches. If a design is resized by simply making all of the stitches longer or shorter by the same percentage, the embossed weave will be preserved, simply getting bigger or smaller. Of course this creates thinly stitched or overly dense designs, so most programs use a more sophisticated technique that adds or removes stitches. Unfortunately none of the programs is sufficiently advanced to recreate an embossed fill. When dealing with Digitizer JAN files created from scratch, though, this isn't a problem. The JAN file knows what kind of embossed fill the design was created with, and it recreates it as needed when the design is resized. As previously mentioned, this action only works in EasyDesign with JAN files created in EasyDesign. Opening any other format will NOT work this way. When EasyDesign opens a "foreign" format, it must guess what kind of fill is in each detected object. Embossed or decorative fill stitches are detected as weave stitches. If you resize the design, the stitches will be regenerated to preserved stitch density, but the regenerated stitches will be weave, not embossed. In EasyEdit, which does not resize in the same way, the embossed fill will be better preserved, but the density will be lost. |
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