Theresa, I'll grant you that the ILSoft website needs some attention, but I don't agree that the information is "bogus".
There was a huge upheaval at ILSoft last year...which has left the owner/programmer of Lace 2000 trying to do everything in his company by himself - and he is not a lacemaker. And, because of its relatively small turnover, Lace 2000 is a minor part of his business, and gets an accordingly minor part of his attention. I know that he used a work-experience student to update his website...and obviously that's where the confusion arose about referring people to The Lace Studio website. The Lace Studio is no more, so that's why the links don't lead anywhere. I have written to England about that matter. However, the programme IS still supported - and as I've repeatedly said, all anyone has to do is email me for help and support. I will also send you privately a demo version of the programme. As for updates...the version of the programme being sold is the 2002 version, and includes any patches which were needed by owners of earlier versions of the programme. The version which needed patches has not been sold for several years now. Having said that, I only know of one small programming error, and I do have a solution for that, and have sent it to several Arachnes in the last couple of weeks - it is free of charge to any owners of the programme. Anything I say about Easy Lace (for which I wrote the instruction book, similar to the one I wrote for Lace 2000) or Knipling will not be seen as unbiased, because of my involvement with Lace 2000. Sufficient to say that, long before I had any involvement with the company at all, I had tried the others, and chose Lace Designer Gold (which was the forerunner of Lace 2000) for myself. Since then I have tried the others again, and still I keep coming back to Lace 2000. Both Easy Lace and Knipling are far more "technical" in nature, and from my observations of Easy Lace users both in Australia and England, it appears to be less "intuitive" and harder to come to terms with...the language is more difficult for lacemakers to relate to. I will say one more thing - my direct involvement with ILSoft now goes back about 6 years...and most of the work I've done in that time is on a purely voluntary basis. So I'm not trying to "sell" you on Lace 2000 in order to make money - in fact, as I've also said before, I'm only allowed to sell within Australia, so it does not affect me whether anyone anywhere else in the world buys Lace 2000 or not. Ruth Budge (Sydney, Australia) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Teresa Thomas Sent: 01 March 2006 00:28 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lace] computer aided lace drafting I am usually a lurker here. I enjoy reading everyones posts. So please forgive me. For now I have a big question about computer aided lace drafting programs. I found 3 programs. After reading past posts and many personal web sites it had looked like Lace 2000 would be absolutely wonderful. I have recently found out that ILSoft is not supporting nor updating this software. Nor are they answering emails with inquires and questions about updates, support or patches for know bugs. The version they are selling is an 2002 version, four years old. To me this looks like an orphan program that ILSoft is still collecting money on. The information on there web site about a down loadable Demo as well as patches and updates at "The Lace Studio" are all bogus. These issues are a problem for me. I did just read Ruth Budge post. It is quite a coincidence that I had planed to cover this issue with an inquiry here. The other 2 programs that I found are Easy Lace and Knipling. Any feed back from users about these programs? At least these companys appear to be keeping current and updated. Please give me feed back about the pros and cons for Easy Lace and Knipling software. A big thank you to everyone. Teresa Thomas From sunny south Texas, right on the Gulf of Mexico. - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
