Hi Sue and everyone Yes, we can do lace design on drawing programs other than the dedicated (hobby) software. It is also possible to use the drawing tools in Word, for instance. The resulting files tend to be very large though, which I found out when someone sent me one by e-mail. However, I was mighty impressed - she was new to lace, and reinforced her beginning lessons by drawing a pattern from them (including a bookmark!)
An advantage to the hobby software over a generic drawing program, if computer space is an issue, is the files are usually quite small, and you can reduce their size further, after many edits, without losing the quality of the pattern (in Easy Lace it is the 'reduce lace stitch memory' option in Tools). My old laptop doesn't have much space, but there is room for the lace design program. Then if the need arises, I can take the laptop to a lace meeting e.g. if giving a talk ( which actually I haven't yet done, but there's always the possibility!) On 7/10/06, Sue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I must say that reading all the different points of view about this subject has been really interesting and useful.
>>Now that this subject is almost exhausted, can I say that I still use a >>generic CAD program - EasyCad. > > Likewise, I use FastCad -
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