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Hi,

Until the new version is made available there are a few things you can do to help. You can try one or more of the following:

Try to use a .GIF image with limited colors. .JPG images are compressed and cause a lot of stray pixels.
In Section 8, turn on Stray Pixel Cleanup by checking the box and select "light", "medium", or "heavy"
In Section 8, try turning "Color Sensitivity" up to a higher number
In Section 5b, select the colors you want to use
In Section 5c, give it a number of colors to use

A long-awaited version is coming that will allow final editing of the pattern before printing it out. I'm not sure yet when it'll go live but I'm working through a few more issues with it.

Let me know if this helps or not.

Terry

Hi everyone!! My name is Amanda. I have been crocheting for almost 20 years! Wow I can't believe how much I both hate and love that number! I love it because I can't believe I have stuck with something for that long and I hate it because it makes me feel old even though I haven't even hit the natural age of 40. My mother taught me to crochet before I had graduated high school. I made my first graphgan when I was 20 and there's been no looking back!!! i love that I found this particular community. I do have at least one question that I have scoured the boards looking for a possible answer to but either I am the only one with the issue or maybe people don't realize its off a bit. When I get to the step of choosing a color pallette it doesn't show them all to me. I am trying to make a graph of 2 flamings facing each other. I want to use the caron simply soft color pallette and I want to choose my colors. I can't choose all that are available because for some reason the pallette doesn't fit completely in the box its in. Its like all the colots are there but I can't see them all because they have floated beyond the border as though the images didn't wrap or auto enter to the next line. Am I making any sense whatsoever? TIA

I understood that for the $2.99 option, you would get a graph pattern up to 300 'squares'. There DEFINITELY should be a 'disclaimer' stating the limitations of this service. It is mis-leading to tell people they can print off a graph of this size, and not tell them that you have to 'pad' the pattern, (whatever that means) or that the pattern will be multiples of 10 pages. My pattern is not an intricate one. I know that you can use 'Photoshop' to create graphs, so perhaps Stitchboard could utilize the features of Photoshop create patterns that are less than 30 or 40 pages.

Thank you very much, BetwixtTheStitch for your reply. Maybe I could see about getting a written pattern, at some point to try. I would think that counting squares would be a lot easier, but I am willing to try something new. Stitchboard Admin -- I love your 'signature'. Hahahahaha. Cats rule.

I finally found a site that printed my graph on 4 pages....perfectly easy for me to see and count.

Please feel free to use my '$2.99' fee to upgrade your software.

In doing a lot of testing and working on some new features, I've seen the page jumping around a lot when loading. This was due to the social network icons at the top of the page. Each one is actually a little window to the particular social networks' system so formatting on the page is slightly out of my control.

I just did a work-around that greatly reduced the effects they have on the actual PatternWizard page. Now when you load the page, they may move around a bit while they load, but at least they stay in the little "corral" in which I put them and no longer move the whole page around.

I'm not too worried about the way it is right now since we'll eventually be bringing a whole new look and the formatting will all change anyway, at which time we'll probably decide on a different look and format of the social network links anyway.

I hope to have another feature running in the next day or so. And then on to more free stuff!

Terry

Neave,

Fantastic!