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Ruler Guide – Guides can be added to the design to make it easier when aligning areas in the design.

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Browse – The option has an explorer style folder list on the same dialog to make changing folders easier.

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Browse – Designs can be printed directly from the Browse option using the saved information.

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Tiling – The program can now print the page numbers on each sheet.

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Convert Image – When selecting a file to convert, the program now lists all the common graphics files.

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Converting Images – The program now shows a preview of the final design making it simpler to see how changing settings affects the final result.

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Position Backdrop – New automatic alignment of scanned charts.

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Backstitch Outline – Automatically generate backstitch outlines between or around colours, it is possible to outline around all colour changes in a specified area.

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Flood Fill – recognizes backstitch lines, as well as template guide lines.

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Text - There is now a preview of the cross stitch and True Type Text on the dialog which updates as text is typed.

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Text - When placing text if you press Ctrl+A the program will then go back to the text option to allow the settings to be changed.

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Motifs - 429 motifs and 20 designs previously supplied with Easy Cross Users

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Thread Charts – All thread charts from the same manufacturer are grouped together under a tab.

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Decrease Colours - If duplicate colours exist in the design, when Decrease Colours is selected the program will automatically select those colours for removal.

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Symbols & Threads – The Symbols and Threads dialog now has OK and Cancel buttons.

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Symbols – Backstitch and French Knot symbols now appear on screen.

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Scale – When scaling it is possible to keep the design to the same aspect ratio.

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Backstitch – Remove any duplicated backstitch, this can reduce the memory usage.

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Options - There is now a Browse option to select the Working Folder.

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Undo - When spraying a new undo is created each time a new spray is made (i.e. between 2 clicks on the mouse).

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Thread Organiser - Create and print simple thread sorter cards

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Print Layout - Select a different print layout for the design by selecting one of built-in layouts, including A3 layouts

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Centre Lines – The centre lines on the printout can now be a different colour.

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Motif Pad - Be able to remove individual motifs from the motif pad.

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Generate Border – Extra features have been added to make this option more flexible, such as repeats can be flipped independently.

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Alignment tools for Objects – Objects can be aligned to the top, bottom, left and right as well as centring vertically and horizontally.

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Thread Chart Titles - The chart titles can now be abbreviated to make more room on the printout.

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Edit Thread Charts – Specific symbols can be assigned to a colour in the thread chart, so the colour will always use the same symbol.

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Symbol Files – The program now supports multiple symbol files which can be swapped over as required.

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Show/Hide Colours – Changes have been made to create a more flexible option, the original hot keys still work.

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Mount – Has been renamed to Framing and now includes the ability to add a frame to the design.

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Frames – The frame library has the ability to be edited and extra frames can be added.

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Annotations - Text annotations can now be created at a specific size.

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Change Stitches – Greater flexibility has been given to this option, such as remove full stitches and flip direction of half stitches.

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Page Layout – Ability to snap to the ruler guides when moving or creating areas.

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Thumbnails – When printing thumbnails of designs, it is possible to create a bitmap file.

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True Type Text - Petit point stitches can be used instead of full stitch when adding True Type Text to a design.

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To Do List – Now there is a Delete All option to clear all the to do entries.

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Edit Thread Stock – There is an updated interface along with the ability to delete entries from the thread database.