Oh! I forgot to say...one feature which caused a lot of difficulties with Lace 2000, was the apparently-random way the Undo button worked. I now understand the logic of what it was doing (yes, there was some logic there - it just wasn't "our" sort of logic!). However, the programmer decided to fix the coding so that the Undo button now works as most others do - it will undo, one step at a time, the last 100 actions. So if you put 100 dots on the screen one after another, it will undo 100 dots, one at a time, in the reverse order to how you put them on the screen.
I might add, that just changing the coding for that process alone, took him three long days of work! The exporting to a PDF file was another difficult thing - most of us would think it was just a matter of adding a button to the screen saying "save as PDF" - but it was a very difficult piece of programming, taking, to quote the programmer "every ounce of programming savvy and guile to get it to do the text". I won't bore you with all the technical-speak, but getting the text in a PDF on the screen, the right way up, the correct font and size was a mammoth job, requiring much writing of codes, and that also took the best part of a week. Saving a file as a PDF will result in accurately-sized patterns, although the exporting to Word etc., will not - you'll have to resize them yourself if you export to those sorts of programmes. I now have a much greater understanding of what goes into making a computer programme, and a lot more respect for the people who can do it! Ruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ruth Budge Sent: Wednesday, 21 May 2008 8:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [lace] Lace R-XP Yes, Janice, it will be possible to export to Word and any other graphics-based programme. Lace Publisher has gone, to be replaced by this much more user-friendly function. Also files can be saved as PDF for ease of publishing. For technical reasons associated with making the grids in Lace R-XP better, it will not be possible to accurately import your motifs from the old programme....however, one clever lady has just suggested to me a way around that problem. If you load your motifs onto a page in Lace 2000, and save it as a file, you'll then be able to open that file in R-XP and resave them as motifs....I haven't tried it yet (the suggestion only lobbed in my inbox about half an hour ago) but I can't see why it wouldn't work. As regards pricing....this is the first price rise from ILSoft, for lace software, in eight years. This is a totally new programme, with lots of new features (there is a list of the changes on www.rxp.com ) and I know that the programmer has been working virtually full time since February on perfecting it. At the prices he's asking, he's not even going to cover the cost of his time unless he sells tens of thousands of copies, which, given the limited market, we know he will not be able to do. I've been working (free) full time for two continuous months testing this programme to make it as lacemaker-friendly and as near perfect as I can manage, before it hits the market. I've also rewritten my book to make it applicable to Lace R-XP - and it will be available in America from Lacy Susan, and in the UK, from SMP Lace. Ruth - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
