On Tuesday 07 Feb 2006 00:12, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > Oops - I never said I can spell! Basicly what she has is a box that > connects to a serial port and programs cards with embroidery designs > in .pes format. (Babylock format.) I could probably cook up > something to handle programming the cards, but the real drawback is > trying to preview the designs. As part of the Embird program that > she runs, there is a plugin for Windows Explorer that uses a > thumbnail of the design for the icon. Also, the programming software > will display the design in each "memory slot" of the card, so you > can select what design to work on, or where to put the design you > are adding to the card. There are both programmable cards, and > pre-programmed cards. (EEPROMs and PROMs, I think.) > > Anyway, you can find free designs, as well as design connections > for sale. Looking at her collection, I would swear she has at least > a thousand designs. Her filing system is beyond me. (She has a bunch > that are filed by download date, that have to get filed yet!) Few of > them have descriptive names, so you need the thumbnail! > I maintain a dual-boot for the same reason. In my case, it's Janome's .jef files, that I can download via any browser, but there is no way you can preview the designs. The extra complication I have is that the windows software is protected by a dongle, but the dongle manufacturers say that a linux driver is available, so I'm going to try to get it running under wine - but I've no experience of wine at all. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/)
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