Linus' blog: Embroidery.. gaah

couldn't resist: <playful:sarcassisism> Good to see you making a difference for society there, Linus! </playful:sarcassisism> On a slightly less frivolous note, good to see that guys like you (you know, 'kernel gods') still embark on pesky little projects like these when you have the itch (stitch?) May I say the PNG looks lovely [*] :) Seth [*]talking about the rendering part

I wrote (my first) Mac app a while back so that my mom could view and print PES files. I used the same C# code as a basis for my Objective-C. http://code.google.com/p/needleworks/source/browse/ (no laughing) Inkscape also has support for PES in svn: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/247463

I blogged in similar mode, last summer, http://lydgate.org/blogs/?p=17 regarding .jef files for Janome embroidery machines, and followed it up with http://lydgate.org/blogs/?p=22. Two busy people have worked entermittently on the project with a fair amount of success. I'll be passing the url of this blog to them, as there clearly is common ground.

The bigger problem I see is the apparent inability to go the other direction: converting to PES from a vector or raster file. My mom's friend has a machine that will do the sewing, but the software to do the conversion is several thousand dollars -- prohibitively expensive for a hobbyist. Any thoughts on writing PES files?

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