Convert it Mac

Convert It, Mac brings todays commercial, home and hobby embroidery formats to the Mac! If you've been downloading or buying embroidery designs, you're ready for Convert It, Mac. It's this simple; You can now view, unzip, colorize, print, thread convert and use those designs with your Mac!

Even if you're a digitizer, this is still the essential tool for you and all embroiderers: If you have designs on your Mac, then you need to be able to find them, view them, see their colors and stitch counts, design dimensions, etc. Imagine looking inside a zip file without opening it, viewing the design, it's stitch count, it's modification date, etc. and the thumbnail next to it shows the original art too! To use it, simply drag the design to your USB stick, or to a machine, or write a Designer 1 disk or USB. You're ready to sew. Maybe you want to print a template? Colorize the design? Convert it to a particular machine format? These are jobs that every embroiderer does, no matter what their skill level.

Key Features Include:

• Browse embroidery designs, images, text files and even files in zips such as those you find on the internet! View as thumbnails or table view with extended information such as file date, thread usage, stitch count and more.
• Convert designs between different embroidery formats including most home embroidery machine types.
• Colorize designs in PES and VP3 with thread brands. Possibilities include ARC, Isacord, Hemingworth, RA, Madeira, Sulky and many more.
• Auto Baste will baste the rectangular outline of a design.
• Automatically create design notes, including a thread shopping list.
• Estimate the thread usage for a design.
• Convert a design to a TIFF file for print, re-digitizing or the web.
• Prints out both design thumbnails and actual size templates which can be used for design placement.
• Centres designs automatically.

New software for the home embroidery industry, brought to you by the talented team at Brian Bailie's Briton Leap. Convert It , Mac offers you the flexibility and ease-of-use you've come to know and trust from the Macintosh platform, now for your embroidery designs too! Read and view all these embroidery formats:

PES, PHC, PHD, PHB, PEC, HUS, SHV, VIP, VP3, PCS, JEF, JEF+, SEW, DST, TAP, EXP, EXP+, ART, ART42, ART50, EMB, JAN, EMD, XXX, CSD, GNC, CND, PCM

And these image formats: BMP, JPG, TIF, GIF And, why not text files: TXT

Write these embroidery formats and do sew much more!:

PES, HUS, SHV (including Designer 1 disks/USB), VIP, VP3, PCS, JEF, SEW, DST, TAP, EXP, XXX

Computer Requirements
Convert It requires Mac OS X version 10.4 or later (Tiger, Leopard, and Snow Leopard as of this writing). Convert It is delivered as a Universal Binary allowing it to run on Intel and PowerPC Macs. There is no minimum memory requirement. If 10.4 or later runs, then Convert It runs. More memory however means better performance. There is no minimum display color property. Embroidery designs are rich in color. Better color display equals better design display.