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Kathy,
I finally got a chance to digest what you wrote and look at the images you sent.
Both images are more than 4 colors. Here's what one eye looks like when enlarged in Photoshop:
This is the larger mage.
The smaller one enlarged looks like this:
The additional colors would have been introduced somewhere on your end. It might have been done when saving the image. It almost always would also happen when changing the size of an image. If you can, try enlarging the smaller image you sent and see if you get the same thing. I also looked at the larger image and see the same thing.
The PatternWizard is sensitive to all these different shades/colors and along some lines thinks there are green pixels where you want blue. You can see in the image above that the bottom edge of the eye looks like it has green in there.
SO, you may want to see if you have a sharper image that doesn't have the shades when enlarged. Regular line art has sharp lines and you won't need to adjust the sharpness.
Let me also look at it again tomorrow and adjust the image to true 4 colors. I can send that to you to try again.
As for the pdf issue you saw, let me look into it. The pdf I created looked fine. I can tell you that the next version that will be enabled soon has a couple changes to the pdf creation code to make it more compatible with different versions of pdf viewing software.
If the image I create and send solves your color problem (which I think it will) and you still have pdf issues, you can let me know and I'll let you try the upcoming version to see if it's a pdf viewing compatibility issue that gets fixed with the update.
Not sure what time I'll send the image but I will at some point tomorrow (well, actually later today
).
Terry
Melanie,
LOL ... I can relate to that ... unfortunately.
Line,
I'm so jealous! Last I'd heard was not to use real wool in a washer, even with a wool setting, now I know it's fine...thank you!
It may be a while before I
get one of those...we simply won't get rid of a washer that's
perfectly functional, sigh. But I can dream!
Oooh, love that about your tent sweater! What a fantastic idea...after all, I imagine nobody ever sees it, other than your family! It must be sooooooooooooo nice and warm.
Who cares what it looks like? Warmth and comfort are
key!
Oh, no!
Do you think your mother told
you it was superwash knowing you'd put it through the regular
washer cycle? If so, that's very mean.
I'd be upset, too. It's not your fault...how were
you to know, but frustrating nonetheless! Of course, I wouldn't want to
give it to someone for a doll, either. It would be
heartbreaking.
Awwwww, that must be nice, to spend time with the dogs in the morning.
Hugs!
Line,
I'm sorry you've had to eat the cost on the apartment painting, but that said, I think you did the smart thing. Obviously, it would not be worth the extra money to stress yourselves out to paint the apartment and to waste your time on it, particularly when you're so tired. Cutting your losses on that really is the right thing to do. There are issues where you have to pick your battles, and you chose this one wisely. The important thing is that
you rest up now, regroup, tie up the loose ends on your new home,
and relax and enjoy.
How do the house auctions generally go...do the prices tend to go up because it's an auction, or do they stay very, very low? Are foreclosures common there?
Our market here was a bit strange. We had a bunch of foreclosures, but since a lot of us were all looking at the same time, those foreclosures didn't last long, so by the time we were able to get into the market, the house we got was literally the only one left in our price range. It wasn't our first choice...but it was our only choice. Other people were lucky enough to have better choices.
That's really interesting about how what's "in" changes there! Do you find the popularity of homes by the sea can change depending on climate for any given year? I, for instance, would love a seaside home in theory...but in reality, I'd be very, very afraid of weather that could wipe out the house. (Some of that is due to memories of flooding.)
I can understand the popularity of houses in the city. Many cities become extremely expensive, of course. If we had unlimited funds, I'd love to live in Manhattan. But not full time, mostly because it gets very, very hot there in the summer and can snow a lot in the winter. LOL, dare to dream, huh?!
That sounds like a fantastic deal on your house, and that's not far out of the city
center at all! Even better that the city is growing and
you have good chances of profiting from that should you decide to
sell your house later!
I hear you about needing room for your yarn! Do tell about the nail
stuff...do you paint custom designs on your nails or
something?
Well, the work here is seemingly endless and ongoing, sigh. And everything is on hold at the moment because of a stupid dead tree that keeps dropping branches. The tree is very, very old and should have lasted for many years, but because carpenter ants found it and have been tunneling in it, it's weakened the branches and now the tree must go. We had one very large branch fall, thankfully where it did little damage, but now we worry every time it rains or we have a lot of wind, because we can hear (thankfully smaller) branches hitting the roof a lot of times. We were originally scheduled to have the stupid thing removed, but then the guy who had agreed to the job (the only one who will handle a tree of this size) is off doing something else, so we wait and wait. We went from having a specific date for when this would happen to having no clue as to when it will.
In the meantime, the other work that has to be done ranges from immediate needs to things that shouldn't - but can and must - wait. Every door needs to be replaced, for instance. The reason is because two owners ago, the guy was an alcoholic, and in a fit of pique, probably because of his anger at the mortgage company, he threw out all of the antique interior doors. Our neighbor garbage picked them and gave them to someone who was remodeling (this was over 10 years ago), but in the meantime, after this place went to the next owners, they went out and bought apparently very cheap interior doors, and they're all in bad shape. The doors are kicked in, broken, don't close right, etc.
A lot of people get angry and mess things up when foreclosure is imminent...but what many of them don't realize is the big bad bank with whom they're attempting to get even doesn't really give a crap about it...more money, less money...it's all the same to them, as a few thousand price difference one way or another is nothing for them. The people who are really affected by stuff like that are the ones who, like us, end up buying the house next. So because the previous people were foreclosed on, they didn't leave a single curtain rod or air conditioning unit, forcing us to start from scratch.
Due to the lack of air conditioning units left for us, we need to install central air, as the hotter days are getting quite miserable with only two small window units for two of the rooms, which we purchased as it began getting hot. When the temperatures go up very high, we have to take our meals upstairs into one of the two rooms, because it's too miserable in the kitchen. But where do we start? If we buy air conditioning units for every room in the house, it will be nice and cool...but then that's money better spent on central air conditioning, so it doesn't pay to keep throwing away money on temporary solutions...except it then gets sooooooooo hot in much of the house.
Many of the windows are old and need to be replaced, but in the meantime, they have to stay as they are. There also isn't a single working window screen, so we can't even open windows for fresh air! (The kitty would sneak out.) Most of the window screens are nonexistent, and the few that remain are slashed.
This house has really been terribly abused. We plan to restore it, but it's going to take a looooooong time, and not a little bit of money.
It's better than where we were, so it's not that we're complaining...but it's hard at times to live in a place that needs so much work.
Awww, enjoy the wine and have a drink for me! Better still, have several,
so I can live vicariously through you.
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Kathy,
I finally got a chance to digest what you wrote and look at the images you sent.
Both images are more than 4 colors. Here's what one eye looks like when enlarged in Photoshop:
This is the larger mage.
The smaller one enlarged looks like this:
The additional colors would have been introduced somewhere on your end. It might have been done when saving the image. It almost always would also happen when changing the size of an image. If you can, try enlarging the smaller image you sent and see if you get the same thing. I also looked at the larger image and see the same thing.
The PatternWizard is sensitive to all these different shades/colors and along some lines thinks there are green pixels where you want blue. You can see in the image above that the bottom edge of the eye looks like it has green in there.
SO, you may want to see if you have a sharper image that doesn't have the shades when enlarged. Regular line art has sharp lines and you won't need to adjust the sharpness.
Let me also look at it again tomorrow and adjust the image to true 4 colors. I can send that to you to try again.
As for the pdf issue you saw, let me look into it. The pdf I created looked fine. I can tell you that the next version that will be enabled soon has a couple changes to the pdf creation code to make it more compatible with different versions of pdf viewing software.
If the image I create and send solves your color problem (which I think it will) and you still have pdf issues, you can let me know and I'll let you try the upcoming version to see if it's a pdf viewing compatibility issue that gets fixed with the update.
Not sure what time I'll send the image but I will at some point tomorrow (well, actually later today
).Terry
Is there a way when creating a pattern to tell it to create as a square as the Pattern always comes out as a rectangle. I am using Tunisian Simple Stitch with a size N hook and I want to create a square so I can use as a cushion cover.
Thank You
Melanie,
LOL ... I can relate to that ... unfortunately.
Line,
I'm so jealous! Last I'd heard was not to use real wool in a washer, even with a wool setting, now I know it's fine...thank you!
It may be a while before I
get one of those...we simply won't get rid of a washer that's
perfectly functional, sigh. But I can dream!
Oooh, love that about your tent sweater! What a fantastic idea...after all, I imagine nobody ever sees it, other than your family! It must be sooooooooooooo nice and warm.
Who cares what it looks like?
Warmth and comfort are
key!Oh, no!
Do you think your mother told
you it was superwash knowing you'd put it through the regular
washer cycle? If so, that's very mean. I'd be upset, too.
It's not your fault...how were
you to know, but frustrating nonetheless! Of course, I wouldn't want to
give it to someone for a doll, either. It would be
heartbreaking.Awwwww, that must be nice, to spend time with the dogs in the morning.
Hugs!
Line,
I'm sorry you've had to eat the cost on the apartment painting, but that said, I think you did the smart thing. Obviously, it would not be worth the extra money to stress yourselves out to paint the apartment and to waste your time on it, particularly when you're so tired. Cutting your losses on that really is the right thing to do. There are issues where you have to pick your battles, and you chose this one wisely.
The important thing is that
you rest up now, regroup, tie up the loose ends on your new home,
and relax and enjoy. How do the house auctions generally go...do the prices tend to go up because it's an auction, or do they stay very, very low? Are foreclosures common there?
Our market here was a bit strange. We had a bunch of foreclosures, but since a lot of us were all looking at the same time, those foreclosures didn't last long, so by the time we were able to get into the market, the house we got was literally the only one left in our price range. It wasn't our first choice...but it was our only choice. Other people were lucky enough to have better choices.
That's really interesting about how what's "in" changes there! Do you find the popularity of homes by the sea can change depending on climate for any given year? I, for instance, would love a seaside home in theory...but in reality, I'd be very, very afraid of weather that could wipe out the house. (Some of that is due to memories of flooding.)
I can understand the popularity of houses in the city. Many cities become extremely expensive, of course. If we had unlimited funds, I'd love to live in Manhattan. But not full time, mostly because it gets very, very hot there in the summer and can snow a lot in the winter. LOL, dare to dream, huh?!
That sounds like a fantastic deal on your house
, and that's not far out of the city
center at all! Even better that the city is growing and
you have good chances of profiting from that should you decide to
sell your house later! I hear you about needing room for your yarn!
Do tell about the nail
stuff...do you paint custom designs on your nails or
something? Well, the work here is seemingly endless and ongoing, sigh. And everything is on hold at the moment because of a stupid dead tree that keeps dropping branches. The tree is very, very old and should have lasted for many years, but because carpenter ants found it and have been tunneling in it, it's weakened the branches and now the tree must go. We had one very large branch fall, thankfully where it did little damage, but now we worry every time it rains or we have a lot of wind, because we can hear (thankfully smaller) branches hitting the roof a lot of times. We were originally scheduled to have the stupid thing removed, but then the guy who had agreed to the job (the only one who will handle a tree of this size) is off doing something else, so we wait and wait. We went from having a specific date for when this would happen to having no clue as to when it will.
In the meantime, the other work that has to be done ranges from immediate needs to things that shouldn't - but can and must - wait. Every door needs to be replaced, for instance. The reason is because two owners ago, the guy was an alcoholic, and in a fit of pique, probably because of his anger at the mortgage company, he threw out all of the antique interior doors. Our neighbor garbage picked them and gave them to someone who was remodeling (this was over 10 years ago), but in the meantime, after this place went to the next owners, they went out and bought apparently very cheap interior doors, and they're all in bad shape. The doors are kicked in, broken, don't close right, etc.
A lot of people get angry and mess things up when foreclosure is imminent...but what many of them don't realize is the big bad bank with whom they're attempting to get even doesn't really give a crap about it...more money, less money...it's all the same to them, as a few thousand price difference one way or another is nothing for them. The people who are really affected by stuff like that are the ones who, like us, end up buying the house next. So because the previous people were foreclosed on, they didn't leave a single curtain rod or air conditioning unit, forcing us to start from scratch.
Due to the lack of air conditioning units left for us, we need to install central air, as the hotter days are getting quite miserable with only two small window units for two of the rooms, which we purchased as it began getting hot. When the temperatures go up very high, we have to take our meals upstairs into one of the two rooms, because it's too miserable in the kitchen. But where do we start? If we buy air conditioning units for every room in the house, it will be nice and cool...but then that's money better spent on central air conditioning, so it doesn't pay to keep throwing away money on temporary solutions...except it then gets sooooooooo hot in much of the house.
Many of the windows are old and need to be replaced, but in the meantime, they have to stay as they are. There also isn't a single working window screen, so we can't even open windows for fresh air! (The kitty would sneak out.) Most of the window screens are nonexistent, and the few that remain are slashed.
This house has really been terribly abused. We plan to restore it, but it's going to take a looooooong time, and not a little bit of money.
It's better than where we were, so it's not that we're complaining...but it's hard at times to live in a place that needs so much work.
Awww, enjoy the wine and have a drink for me!
Better still, have several,
so I can live vicariously through you. friends
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