[plug] File formats for embroidery machine

[James Devenish]

In message <1072070253.1770.8.camel at syngery>
on Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 01:17:34PM +0800, Chris Caston wrote:
> My grandma has recently brought a brand new embroidery machine.

And your challenge to is to top that for Christmas ;-)

> It embroid's

Or embroiders?

> Anyway it apparently can also import from .bmp
> 
> What I am worried about, however, is losing quality if I have a .gif or
> .png from the web that I save as bitmap then import

Not quite sure what you're specifically thinking the problem will be,
unless it's that the software doesn't work. I'm guessing that the
machine comes with specific recommendations about the maximum size of
the embroidery area and the maximum bitmap size. If not, perhaps you
could just do a calculation yourself (e.g. convert width of thread to
DPI, work out the required pixels, and assume the physical sewing
capability is a tad lower than that)? Of course, if you get an image
from the web you'll want to download the 'print' or 'original' version
rather than the 'for web' version (because, of course, the 'web'
versions of graphics are generally useless for anything other than
on-screen viewing). Presumably, too, you'll need to convert the image
from 'millions of colours' down to 'colours of available cotton'. At
this stage, I'm guessing that this conversion is one of the tasks that
Customizer 10000+ would *have* to provide.

I've just had another thought -- I've you're worried about saving the
image "at a particular DPI", I would suspect that you needn't be
worried. As long as you have a sufficient number of pixels in your
image, the Customizer 10000+ will presumably allow you to adjust the
"final size" correctly.

> Does anyone know of any Debian clipart already in .wmf .sew or .bmp
> format that would likely embroid well?

The open-use PDF and XCF files at <http://www.debian.org/logos/> might
be sufficient for conversion to either WMF or BMP, as you please. I
would guess that it's easier to use The Gimp to 'Save As...' BMP than
to wield a to-WMF converter.

> Let me know if your interested.

It's "you're" -- but a lot of people are using 'your' in the last few
days, for some reason -- must be drunk ;-P

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