KXStitch 0.8 review

KXStitch's aim is to create software to allow the creation and editing of cross stitch patterns

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Stephen Allewell

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KXStitch's aim is to create software to allow the creation and editing of cross stitch patterns. Although software for this type of application has existed on the Windows platform for many years, there has never been an application written specifically for the Linux platform.

KXStitch will be developed for Linux using KDE/QT.

Here are some key features of "KXStitch":
Creation of new patterns
User defined size
Selection of material type
Selection of material colour
Importing of various picture formats
Importing images from a scanner
Importing options will allow
Limiting colours to a specific palette
Limiting the number of colours
Setting of the finished size
Cropping of the image
Support for transparancy in images
Use of an image background for tracing
Editing of existing patterns
Editing tools will include
Open and filled recangles
Open and filled ellipses
Filled polylines
Lines
Erasing stitches and backstitches
Colour selection from existing stitch
Swap colours
Replace colour
Cut, copy and paste of rectangular regions
Stitch type and colour masks can be used to limit the selection
Undo, Redo
Mirroring
Rotation
Scaling
Resizing of the canvas
Extending canvas left, top, right, bottom
Cropping canvas to the pattern
Cropping canvas to selection
Inserting rows and columns
Centering current pattern on the canvas
Conversion between floss schemes
Display scales in Stitches,CM and inches
Use of various floss palettes, DMC, Anchor, Madeira
Creation of custom palettes
Creation of new colours
Use of standard stitches
Creation of custom stitches
Free use of backstitching
Printing of patterns and floss keys
(implemented, but needs to be enhanced)
Mapping of symbols to flosses
Calibration of floss colours
Adding notes to patterns
Full previews with layout tools
Pattern library

What's New in This Release:
Added a new palette manager to replace add floss and remove flosses dialogs
New palette manager allows allocation of strands for stitches and backstitches
New palette manager allows allocation of symbols for flosses
Import / Export of library patterns
Undo / Redo partially implemented
Faster rendering speed
Mouse tracking display in the status bar
Selection tool and drawing tools scroll the editor screen
Bug fix for using background images not on the local file system
Bug fix for filenames used on the command line
Bug fix page page wrapping