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Hi all. I recently began using KG Chart to make my own patterns. It seems that it only allows me to export the images one at a time and I can't even export the chart key. The print preview places everything together perfectly: simulated cross stitch image, chart, chart key, titles, etc. Is there a way to export the print preview?

Hang on, I'll just download and have a look. Okay so what I do on PC Stitch is download the charts individually, then open Print Preview and use snipping tool (it should be pre-installed on your computer, it's really useful) to snip a picture of the colours. Then I piece it all together in Open Office and export as PDF. It's the best way to do it, especially if you want it to look right with a cover image and everything.

VickieDesigns wrote:Hang on, I'll just download and have a look. Okay so what I do on PC Stitch is download the charts individually, then open Print Preview and use snipping tool (it should be pre-installed on your computer, it's really useful) to snip a picture of the colours. Then I piece it all together in Open Office and export as PDF. It's the best way to do it, especially if you want it to look right with a cover image and everything.

I guess I don't understand what you're doing. Why not just print to PDF right out of PC Stitch?

fgradowski wrote:Hi all. I recently began using KG Chart to make my own patterns. It seems that it only allows me to export the images one at a time and I can't even export the chart key. The print preview places everything together perfectly: simulated cross stitch image, chart, chart key, titles, etc. Is there a way to export the print preview?

I don't use that software, but I looked in their user manual. Are you setting the "Print Pages" option to "All" and selecting the "Separate Table" option to print the color key?

Edit: I downloaded the software and imported some images to convert, then printed to PDF the resulting chart. All the pages printed and by selecting "Separate Table", the color chart printed on its own page. I'm not sure where you're experiencing the difficulty.

Allyn wrote:

VickieDesigns wrote:Hang on, I'll just download and have a look. Okay so what I do on PC Stitch is download the charts individually, then open Print Preview and use snipping tool (it should be pre-installed on your computer, it's really useful) to snip a picture of the colours. Then I piece it all together in Open Office and export as PDF. It's the best way to do it, especially if you want it to look right with a cover image and everything.

I guess I don't understand what you're doing. Why not just print to PDF right out of PC Stitch?

While you could do that, you would need to download extra software which would stamp their name all over the PDF unless you hand over money. On top of that, you wouldn't have control as to placement of the charts and there would be no cover image.

As my products are PDFs, I try to keep them to a very high standard - so far I have had no complaints, only compliments!

VickieDesigns wrote:

Allyn wrote:

VickieDesigns wrote:Hang on, I'll just download and have a look. Okay so what I do on PC Stitch is download the charts individually, then open Print Preview and use snipping tool (it should be pre-installed on your computer, it's really useful) to snip a picture of the colours. Then I piece it all together in Open Office and export as PDF. It's the best way to do it, especially if you want it to look right with a cover image and everything.

I guess I don't understand what you're doing. Why not just print to PDF right out of PC Stitch?

While you could do that, you would need to download extra software which would stamp their name all over the PDF unless you hand over money. On top of that, you wouldn't have control as to placement of the charts and there would be no cover image.

As my products are PDFs, I try to keep them to a very high standard - so far I have had no complaints, only compliments!

Okay, I wasn't criticizing, just wondering. My PDF printer (which was free) doesn't stamp the PDFs, allows high-res output and allows me to combine pages to add a cover image so I guess I wasn't thinking about that being a problem. I was just wondering, that's all.