Re: [lace] RE: [bobbinlace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Achim Siebert
Hello Jo, I also own Knipling - nice program but again in a different price category and not very Mac-like (it only runs as a standard Unix program under X11). And I think there's no development for it any more, so if it stops working in any OSX update we're lost (I just checked on their

RE: [lace] RE: [bobbinlace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Marianne Gallant
Vernon, BC www.yarnshop.ca m...@shaw.ca -Original Message- From: owner-l...@arachne.com [mailto:owner-l...@arachne.com] On Behalf Of Jo Sent: January-29-11 10:52 AM To: bobbinl...@yahoogroups.com; 'lace_arachne.com' Subject: [lace] RE: [bobbinlace] App for lace designers with Macs

RE: [lace] RE: [bobbinlace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Jo
Hello Achim I also own Knipling - nice program but again in a different price category and not very Mac-like It runs on windows too. I just mentioned it to explain why I did not try wether The Gimp could do something. After buying one of the first versions of Knipling I volunteerd as a beta

Re: [lace] RE: [bobbinlace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Achim Siebert
I'm afraid the market is not that big. If no one pays nor participates in developing, nothing happens anywhere. Sad but true. There are too few lace making and/or designing people worldwide to make development of a specialized program worthwhile. Even more so for those using Macs. But

Re: [lace] RE: [bobbinlace] App for lace designers with Macs

2011-01-29 Thread Clay Blackwell
As someone who loves re-creating old lace, and yearns to design my own lace, I've found this discussion both fascinating and beyond my reach!! I am your average computer user: I don't have a clue about codes or vector based graphics or any of the other things that are lurking under the