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General features
• Manage designs more effectively with easy-to-use floating palettes.
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• Correct unwanted changes with multiple levels of undo / redo commands that will save you hours.
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• Keyboard short-cuts for many operations, commands, effects, and tools (user- definable).
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• Get feedback from the on-screen status line on cursor position, currently selected tools and design attributes.
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• Open multiple files or multiple versions of the same file at once and switch between windows.
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• The Scroller palette allows you to quickly move around complex documents.
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• Rotate elements by any increment.
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• Scale elements uniformly or non-uniformly in any direction.
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• Reflect elements along any axis to create mirror-image effects.
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• Shear elements at any angle.
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• Envelopes palette brings you powerful transformations: elements in perspective views, receding into the distance, bridging,..
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• Lock or hide any element or set of elements for easy editing.
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• Align elements.
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• Set constrains to move or transform elements at any user-defined angle.
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• Move shapes in precise distances at exact angles.
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• Multiple layers to overlay graphics and text, for greater design freedom and control.
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• Create, name, delete, move, lock, hide, and merge layers quickly with the easy-to-use Layers palette.
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• Create, name, delete, edit and select colours quickly with the intuitive Colours palette.
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• Lasso tool to create irregularly-shaped selections.
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• Marquee zoom in or out to your preferred viewing level for precise editing.
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• Measure distances between any two points.
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• Cut and paste between applications windows.
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• Drag and Drop between applications windows.
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• Optional on-screen rulers.
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• Pull horizontal and vertical line guides out from rulers.
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• Create grids for precision drawing.
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• User-controlled snap-to-grid and snap-to-point features.
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• Libraries can be used to store designs, backgrounds, tiles, motifs, or clipart.
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• Specify inches, centimetres, millimetres or machine units.
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Drawing features
• Create artwork from scratch with the Pen or Pencil tools.
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• Manually trace over scanned images with precision drawing tools.
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• Automatically trace over black-and-white, greyscale or indexed colour (up to 256 grey levels or colours) images with the Trace command.
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• Create rectangles, squares, rounded rectangles and squares, circles, ellipses, polygons, stars and spirals with basic shape tools.
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• Use the pathfinder palette to create new elements by combining, subdividing, or isolating parts of overlapping elements.
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• Parallel paths, outline and in-line tools.
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• Instantly edit straight lines and smooth curves with maximum control using the full-featured Pen tool.
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• Change corner points to smooth points or vice versa.
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• Adjust Bezier curves by moving the anchor points or direction handles.
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• Delete anchor points or add anchor points to any path for tighter control.
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• Cut paths at any user-defined place and elements in pieces.
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• Join any two terminal anchor points.
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• Group and ungroup elements.
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• Input text using TrueType, OpenType .otf and PostScript Type 1 fonts. (1)
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• Convert TrueType, OpenType .oft and PostScript Type 1 fonts to fully editable outlines to create customised letterforms. (1)
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• Text on a path allows you to place typefaces along curves, around circles, or along vertical or diagonal lines.
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• 300 TrueType Fonts included free.
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• Import files in Adobe Illustrator's EPS and default native formats, Corel Presentation Exchange (CMX) format, and HP-GL format.
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• Export files in Adobe Illustrator 3.0/3.2 EPS format.
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Lettering features
• Monogram tool for precise control of size, leading, spacing, width scale, slant, connection method, alignment, and other text elements attributes.
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• Includes full range of high-quality Embroidery type fonts.
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• Text on a path allows you to place embroidery typefaces along curves, around circles, or along vertical or diagonal lines.
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• Kerning window to specify customised spacing between pairs of characters.
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• Combine text layouts, graphics and external text file to create personalised items or any other serialised designs.
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• Create new embroidery typefaces from scratch and modify existing embroidery typefaces.
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Editing features
• Manually create stitches with the Needle tool.
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• Add stitch points to any section for tighter control.
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• Delete and move stitch points.
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• Add, delete, move or insert codes for colour change, laser on/off, stop, trim, applique or return to origin.
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• Use the Special Functions palette to insert special functions in the design.
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• Use the Threads palette to select colours from a range of thread libraries.
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• Major threads manufacturers' colour charts library included free.
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• Create, edit, and import pre-set or your own threads colour charts libraries.
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• Match colours to automatically find the threads whose colours are the closest simulation of the design's colours.
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• Search for needle/colour change, stop code, jump code, short stitches,...
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• Turn satin stitches into fill stitch and vice versa.
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• Editing of running, fill and satin stitches.
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• Design recalculation setting the desired stitches number.
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• Modifying of satin height, colours replacement, optimization, and more.
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• Slow motion to simulate the sewing on the screen.
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• Estimate how long a design will take to complete one run on an embroidery machine.
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• Advanced worksheet preview and printing.
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• Tajima, ZSK, Barudan, Toyota, Pfaff, Happy and Melco Expanded's code and paper tape formats are available.
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• Tajima, ZSK, Barudan FDR & FMC, Toyota, Pfaff, Happy and Melco DOS's disk formats are available.
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• Direct connection to Tajima, Barudan, Toyota, POEM, Melco SuperStar embroidery machines.
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Digitizing features
• Use the Effects palette to create, edit, delete and/or apply embroidery effects.
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• Stitches engine generates high quality stitch data (even stitch placement, prevent bunching of stitches, least number of stitches,…).
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• Single, double, triple,…, running stitch with offset along any path.
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• Filling of areas with fill and satin stitches (complex fill).
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• Different fill patterns can be created by altering the angle, length and repeat sequence of the fill stitches.
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• Steil Stitch creates a satin stitch of constant height around a single path.
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• Curved Fill Stitch creates “curved” stitch lines that flow evenly and gradually throughout the shape edges.
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• Combined Fill Stitch automatically changes fill to satin using “tiles”.
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• Variable Density Fill Stitch automatically creates many different shading, perspective and colour blending effects.
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• Overlap at the joining points of adjoining shapes of sections, to avoid gaps due to fabric elasticity.
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• Automatic stitch shortening to avoid bunching of stitches.
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• Automatic jagging for fill and satin stitches.
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• Automatic density adjustment in satin stitches.
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• Automatic segmentation to slip long satin stitches.
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• Automatic proportional and fixed pull compensation for fill and satin stitches.
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• Automatic lock stitches.
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• Automatic underlay (Centerline, Edge, ZigZag, Fill, Cross, Grid,…).
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• Saving multi-colour designs as Motifs to fill any closed area or flow along any path automatically.
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• Use artworks as Backgrounds to create an unlimited number of fill appearance.
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• Many pre-programmed motifs and backgrounds for special effects.
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• Bean stitch, chain stitch, and many other.
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• Ability to place any path inside a shape to produce distinct satin effects.
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• View and print design in lifelike, 3-D, photorealistic preview, as if it was actually stitched on the fabric.
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• Set the light source’s location and intensity, the thread’s fineness and colour, and the background fabric.
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• Set the applique’s fabric.
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• Display appliques’ fabrics in the photorealistic preview.
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• Export photorealistic preview as graphics image.
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• Place design specifications and photorealistic preview within Punto files to create catalogs with graphic database applications.
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(1) Some platforms (Macintosh) require Adobe Type Manager. (2) Limited parameters. (3) Proportional only.


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