When choosing colours for my palette in a pattern, the floss list used to stay at the position of my last selection. Now it always returns to the top of the list, making it necessary to constantly scroll down to the colour I want each time, or to enter the floss number from the keypad and select it that way. It's much more time-consuming and tedious, and to top it all off, everything seems to be taking longer as well. Whatever happened to a good thing?! Don't fix it if it ain't broke!
The difference is there is now a default symbol "assigned" to each color when you set it. It defaults to the first available symbol in the font. Another difference is each symbol can refer to more than one symbol.
By giving each color a default symbol, you avoid the occasional error seen in 7 if a symbol was inadvertently left "unassigned".
The way to avoid your problem of going back and forth is to set all your colors first and let them take the default symbols. Then go back and set the symbol you want for each color. The font list will scroll back and forth a bit as you select each symbol but it will work it's way across.
You can avoid the amount of scrolling by setting Pro to be max screen. Then open the symbol palette and click on the "push pin" to keep it up. Then drag the side of the window to the right to enlarge it. It will shrink what is available in your edit window but this is temporary. As it gets wider and wider, the amount of scrolling required to see all the symbols decreases. You can also shrink the size of the visible symbols as that puts more symbols on the screen at any one time.
Remember that the smaller the edit window, the shorter the current palette will be and you will have fewer in each row.
When you get everything set, click on the pushpin again and move the mouse away. The window will "collapse" and your edit window will enlarge again.
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Posted - 03/04/2007 : 17:01:09
