KXStitch 0.8

KXStitchs aim is to create software to allow the creation and editing of cross stitch patterns. Although software for this type of application has existed on the Windows platform for many years, there has never been an application written specifically for the Linux platform.
KXStitch will be developed for Linux using KDE/QT.
Main features:
- Creation of new patterns
- User defined size
- Selection of material type
- Selection of material colour
- Importing of various picture formats
- Importing images from a scanner
- Importing options will allow
- Limiting colours to a specific palette
- Limiting the number of colours
- Setting of the finished size
- Cropping of the image
- Support for transparancy in images
- Use of an image background for tracing
- Editing of existing patterns
- Editing tools will include
- Open and filled recangles
- Open and filled ellipses
- Filled polylines
- Lines
- Erasing stitches and backstitches
- Colour selection from existing stitch
- Swap colours
- Replace colour
- Cut, copy and paste of rectangular regions
- Stitch type and colour masks can be used to limit the selection
- Undo, Redo
- Mirroring
- Rotation
- Scaling
- Resizing of the canvas
- Extending canvas left, top, right, bottom
- Cropping canvas to the pattern
- Cropping canvas to selection
- Inserting rows and columns
- Centering current pattern on the canvas
- Conversion between floss schemes
- Display scales in Stitches,CM and inches
- Use of various floss palettes, DMC, Anchor, Madeira
- Creation of custom palettes
- Creation of new colours
- Use of standard stitches
- Creation of custom stitches
- Free use of backstitching
- Printing of patterns and floss keys
- (implemented, but needs to be enhanced)
- Mapping of symbols to flosses
- Calibration of floss colours
- Adding notes to patterns
- Full previews with layout tools
- Pattern library
Enhancements:
- Added a new palette manager to replace add floss and remove flosses dialogs
- New palette manager allows allocation of strands for stitches and backstitches
- New palette manager allows allocation of symbols for flosses
- Import / Export of library patterns
- Undo / Redo partially implemented
- Faster rendering speed
- Mouse tracking display in the status bar
- Selection tool and drawing tools scroll the editor screen
- Bug fix for using background images not on the local file system
- Bug fix for filenames used on the command line
- Bug fix page page wrapping