Knit Visualizer
November 22nd, 2005 at 9:51 pm (uncategorized)
Being on "vacation" means I get to spend my spare time (as much spare time as I have when you have two small children, a husband with a bad back and a thanksgiving to prepare for) working on whatever. For the last few days, that whatever has been Knit Visualizer coding (yes, I do this for fun. I am insane. I know this about myself). I now present to you, the coolest Print Preview screen ever:
You can choose to view the whole thing, not chopped up by pages, or go into this more advanced (and memory intensive) print preview mode. You can view all the pages at once by using the first zooming factor. You can automatically squish more onto each page by scaling the whole thing down. (Preview reflects new changes immediately of course). You can also make changes to your page setup, paper size, margins, landscape/portrait. All the stuff you’d expect from an application that lets you print!
Why is this such a big deal you ask? Well, alot of craft-oriented software doesn’t bother to do this. There is one quilting design program (I won’t name names, and it’s been forever since I used it, so maybe they’ve fixed it) that gives you a print options dialog, and just checkboxes for some categories of things to include. You have no idea how many pages it will spool to your printer, what the details of that information will be, what font size it will use. I felt like I was playing the lottery when I hit "Print". I hovered over the printer ready to hit the OFF button if it looked like it was going to be possessed by the evil quilting software.
The simpler version of print preview (which you’ll have to go through to get to this fancier version) lets you specify which elements to show on the screen. Here I’ve chosen the Title, Source, Chart and Legend. Each page has a header that contains the page number (out of total #) and the location of the chart on disk.
Ingrid said,
November 22nd, 2005 at 10:05 pm
You’re so awesome!! I’ll have time to play with this… someday…
marta said,
November 23rd, 2005 at 9:19 am
SWEET!
Joann said,
November 23rd, 2005 at 5:20 pm
yes, you are sick but you are gonna absolutely kick butt with your software!!
teresa said,
November 23rd, 2005 at 11:31 pm
It looks cool, I do not even know what it is, and I think it looks cool.
judy said,
November 25th, 2005 at 12:58 pm
Very cool! I don’t think that the other knit software does this either.
judy said,
November 25th, 2005 at 12:59 pm
Very cool! I don’t think that the other knit software does this either.