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The latest version of our range of XStitch design products. Includes all the features of XStitch 2 and lots lots more including:

    Support for Anchor and DMC thread colours.
    Quicker chart generation.
    Scale sprites to fit the canvas size.
    Importation of JPEG, GIFF, TIFF files.
    Make canvases from scratch.
    Save out designs in XSCanvas format so they can be edited later.
    Full canvas editing and drawing tools, including boxes, lines, circles etc.
    Undo option to recover from mistakes.
    Copy sections of the canvas around.
    Flip both vertically and horizontally.
    New on screen colour manual.
    New minimise colour option so that only the colours used in the design are shown.
    All features are available from easy to use button/tool bars.
    OLE sprite editing using !Paint.
    Print out designs and reference charts.
    Scale printed design size in units of 5% to save wasting paper.
    WYSIWYG preview mode, shows what your design will look like when stitched including backstitch.
    Improved canvas display with anti-aliasing.
    User selectable grid colour, backstitch colour and symbol colour which can be changed on the fly.
    New skein count routine, no need to guess the amount of thread needed.
    Motif tool, use the built in motifs, select the one you want and just add it to your design using any colour.
    Create your own motifs easily and quickly and save them for later use.
    Add text to your canvas using any available outline font.
    Two undo types - either undo a whole operation in one go, or undo 1 stitch at a time (up to 3800 stitches).
    Faster canvas editing (up to twice the speed of XStitch2).
    Much easier to resize a source image up or down without losing aspect ratio.
    Supports paper sizes up to A3 (in both portrait and Landscape).
    Full time on-line help available on the tool bar.
    Customise the user experience, this alters both estimated stitching time and skein count.
    Set the brightness of 256 colour images when imported.
    Directly import Drawfiles (as well as Sprites, JPEG, Windows bitmap, GIFF e.t.c).
    Faster screen redraw and faster printing too.
    Requires Risc Os 3.1 or later, a hard disk and 2Mb of RAM. !ChangeFSI is used for some image processing.