MacStitch is an easy to use, yet extremely powerful computer program, which allows you to create cross stitch, tapestry, beadwork, knitting, and other similar sorts of designs.

It lets you import scanned photos or clip art, chooses suitable colours for you, and converts these into designs, then lets you print out the designs in a variety of easy-to-read patterns on your own printer, together with an estimate of the amount of thread used.

MacStitch is intended to be similar to that of 'Studio' for the PC, and has been designed from the outset to be file-compatible, so that files can be easily ported to and from the Mac and PC

MacStitch allows you to design your own charts in the same sort of easy-to use manner for which we became popular on the PC.

Turn your own photos into charts - use clip art or images copied from the web (copyright may exist in these images so be careful if you wish to sell the designs afterwards).

Here are some key features of "MacStitch":

· Full, Half, and Backstitches
· French Knots
· Beads
· Circles and boxes - filled, hollow, or beaded
· Lines
· Motifs
· NEW!! Multi-level Undo
· Truetype fonts into text
· Backstitched Alphabets
· Automatic Outlining of shapes
· Automatic smoothing of shapes
· Flood Fill
· Eyedropper tool to find used threads
· Flash a color.
· Search & replace/address>
· Flip,
· Mirror
· Rotation
· Sort palette by hue, number,brightness etc.
· Backstitch shapes
· Auto-Adjust design for knitting
· Tunisian Crochet
· Navigator window?jump to any area quickly
· Up to 4 charts on screen at once?copy and paste between them.

Requirements:

· Scanner / camera(optional)
· High or True colour display
· Printer

Limitations:

· The demo will not allow you to save any design you create.
· It will allow you to print any of the sample charts, but if you amend them on screen, then printing is disabled until you close the design and open a new one.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

New features:
· Added 'single page' print.
· Added Export to PDF.
· Added usage count to histogram so the usage can be seen without having to print.
· Added 'default folder' to prefs screen so that a favourite documents folder can be used.

Fixes:
· Fixed colour symbols not updated properly after 'add thread' option was used.
· changed some italian translations.
· Allowed imported images to create charts up to 999x999 and increased number of import colours.
· Fixed colours displaying incorrectly when pasting.
· Changed import screen to prevent seizing up on windows and simplify the layout.
· Fixed problem with saved printersetup options causing Windows version to crash.
· Stopped repeated use of the space bar turning eyedropper permanently.