Chapter 2. Features

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

  • Creation of new patterns

    • User defined size

    • Selection of material color

    • Insertion of a background images for tracing

    • Importing of various image formats

    • Importing options allow

      • Limiting the number of colors

      • Limiting colors to a specific palette

      • Scaling to a finished size

      • 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 polygons

    • Painting

    • Lines

    • Erasing stitches, knots and backstitches

    • Color selection from existing stitches

    • Swapping two colors

    • Replace one color with another

    • Text with user defined fonts and sizes

    • Cut, copy and paste of rectangular areas.

    • Unlimited undo and redo

    • Mirroring, horizontally and vertically.

    • Rotation, 90, 180 and 270 degrees anti clockwise.

    • Resizing of the canvas

      • Extend canvas left, top, right, bottom

      • Cropping canvas to pattern

      • Cropping canvas to selection

      • Inserting rows and columns

      • Center the pattern on the canvas

    • Conversion between floss schemes

  • Use of standard floss pallets, DMC, Anchor, etc.

  • Create customized floss pallets

  • Create new colors for any floss pallet

  • Save / Load current palette

  • Use of standard stitches

  • Pattern library manager

    • Create new library patterns

    • Insert library patterns into a design

    • Drag and drop from the library to the pattern

    • Drag and drop from one library to another

    • Assign key press to patterns for use with the Alphabet tool

  • Free use of backstitching

  • Printing of completed patterns and floss keys

    • Pattern image

    • Instructions

    • Floss key and stitch summary

    • Pattern chart with page map

    • Text boxes

  • Mapping of symbols to flosses

  • Specify the number of threads for stitches and backstitches

  • Calibration of floss colors

Requests for new features can be made to the KDE Bugtracking System