Symbols

Petit Point Embroidery Charting System

This program is designed to produce
THE MOST EASILY READ
charts you've ever seen !

System Requirements

PC running Windows 3.1, 3.11, or 95 with 8 meg of ram or more, a printer (preferably 360 dpi color), and good Windows image editor.

Implementation

Symbols is a stand alone (no additional support files needed) Windows executable that reads the contents of two files to create a third.
One file is Symbols.BMP. It contains a set of 87 unique charting symbols in order of darkest to lightest, and space to add 20 more custom chart symbols.
The other file might be one of your own design; one pixel represents one stitch.

Symbols.EXE reads the contents of an 8 bit (256 color palette) bitmap, and generates a new bitmap, by replacing each pixel in the design file with a block of pixels (36 x 36) that contains a symbol associated with the palette index number, and information to create a grid. This also has the effect of making the resultant chart at least 1296 times as large (in bytes) as the original design that was read to create it. The resultant chart will be a 360 dpi image, and if printed on a 360 dpi printer, will be exactly 10 squares to the inch.

This program can even be used to convert photographic (scanned) bitmaps into cross stitch charts, given the right processing.

Try It, You'll Like It !

Download the demonstration Symbols.ZIP (file), and see for yourself.

Thanks For Your Interest !

Graphics

JL Home

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