Someone mentioned that Designer's Gallery had polled the community for Mac interest. We have been using this system behind the scenes for several years to create our Interactive designs for Designer's Gallery. We are also working on a bezier-based Wilcom style digitizing system, which will come in levels of availability, starting with a 'training-wheels' version. Merge designs, colorize, re-size with stitch recalculation, add lettering, monogramming, circle text, remove overlaps (our patent) and more. It also reads and writes the latest Palette/PE-Design 9 files.Īlso we've just released at the Embrilliance Essentials program, and it does many things common to embroidery, up to digitizing. This includes the Brother/Baby Lock machines that use floppies and USB and machines like Janome 350e.
It too has utilities for Designer 1 floppy and USB machines (saving a Mac user from needing Windows and Viking Disk Manager), bulk conversion, color sorting, basting, as well as removing hidden files so that machines are more Mac friendly. Regarding Convert It, Mac at, it is very useful for browsing, colorizing, thread conversion and format conversion. (Can you beleive there are still Classic Macs running PCD? Wow! But there are!) We even got Classic on Intel running to test, and had some older MacPfaffies confirm our files are working. We have duplicated those files, however in Convert It, Mac. WabbitWanch seems to have taken down all their stuff that supported the early MacPfaffies.
There also was McStitch, but I don't know if that is active at all. If you are looking for a digitizer, there used to be Punto, which we haven't heard from in a while. He has acknowledged our product and we reciprocate.
And although it is a competitor to Convert It, Mac, I'd like to say that we're all for Mac, and those of us producing solutions for the Mac community need to stick together. As Matthias points out, his StitchBuddy is a great value.