Hello, A while ago I got a pattern that's in a pdf just as a picture with a grid and I was wondering if it's at all possible to import this into PCstitch and edit? The pattern I have has different symbols in each stitch for the color code and when I tried to copy paste it into paint or something it just makes the new pattern a blur. I'm new to PCStitch and only picked it up to hopefully continue on this one project.
Honestly, it doesn't have to be exact to color and clear-- I've already stitched it. I really just want to add more to the picture inside the negative space so I just need to know where I'm working and I'm dreading to do it one at a time... It's a large project.
A pattern in a PDF is just a picture - an image - of the pattern. What you see in PDF is a coded description of the pattern displayed on a grid. The form in PCStitch will not blur the symbols no matter how much you zoom because it still checks the coding and puts the specified symbol in the specified box regardless of the size needed. With PDF or jpg or other images, you enlarge the image, you blur the symbols.
Imports into PCStitch are images that you convert to patterns. To import a pattern in a PDF format would simply give you a pattern of a pattern of symbols and blurred at that because of the method of converting. The import does not know you have a pattern.
What some people do is to convert the PDF to an image, a jpg file, and then use that as an underlay so you can see what symbols to put where or have it side-by-side with PCStitch and manually create a PCStitch form of the pattern.
I have done the latter form but never the former. I have not experimented with underlays.
That's a separate action. You can get the stitch count and print it and if you print both the pattern and the stitch count to a PDF (the only way to create a PDF), you can use a PDF Merge tool to combine them into a single file.
Importing from pdf
Posted - 09/03/2014 : 22:19:43
