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| ecope |
Posted - 04/11/2011 : 21:17:59
I have notice that I have the same symbol that represents two colors in the same pattern so when I see that symbol in the pattern I don't know which color to use unless I look at it on the computer screen.
I am not always near my computer when I am cross stitching so why did pcstitch assign one symbol with two colors and how can I correct it?
Thanks,
Eric |
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| Dragonlair |
Posted - 04/12/2011 : 07:44:33
Even if the software disallowed duplicate symbols (and I don't know why it DOES allow it - except while setting the symbols in the first place) but that wouldn't solve the problem entirely.
If you check the PCStitch symbol fonts (I think at least the 2nd or the 3rd ones), there are duplicate symbols within the font definition. If you select these symbols, the software will not realize they are the same symbol because they are represented by different hex-codes internally.
The solution to duplicate symbols is to CHANGE one of them. It's just that symbol. Edit your design and where you see this situation, make one of the colors the "current" color and then open the symbol panel and select an un-marked (therefore unused) symbol.
When you are setting the colors in a pattern and NOT using a pre-defined color palette, every color is defined a symbol as it is entered. The symbol is always the "next" symbol in the selected font. You could change the symbol to the desired symbol after each selection or wait until you have ALL the desired colors selected and then change them all. If you do the latter case, there will quite likely be a few cases where you want a color to use a symbol that has already been selected. You will sometimes get a warning message that you are duplicating symbols. Just let that go and continue. When you complete, try to be sure you do not have any duplicates left.
Older forms of the software (7), did not allow duplicate symbols but they did not pre-define a symbol each case. That version also had problems if you did not define a symbol for each color. This pre-defining is a way to work around that problem but introduced other possible situations to work on. It was a trade-off and did solve the problem.
Diane
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