A Knitter’s Blog

Windows 7 was released this week and we, at Knitting Software, are happy to announce that all of our programs install and run on Windows 7.

Yesterday, I was using Stitch & Motif Maker and discovered a neat feature in Windows 7. Included in Windows 7 under Accessories is the Snipping Tool. The Snipping Tool allows the user to take screen shots.

As I was completing a new pattern to be released today, Winter Sunburst, I realized that I did not need to make a separate legend for the chart in Stitch & Motif Maker. That isn’t quite correct. I did need to create a legend for the pattern, but rather than redo the symbols, I was able to use use the Snipping Tool to copy a symbol from the chart and paste it into my Word document.

Here is a sample chart. I have Stitch & Motif Maker open. I used the Snipping Tool to capture the whole grid. I then clicked Copy in the Snipping Tool and now Paste in Windows Writer (which I am using for my blog post)

I just realized as I was pasting the above chart into Writer, that I would not even have to export the chart as a .jpg or .bmp to use in Word. All I would have need to do was Snip and Paste just as I did here, in Writer.

Now, I want to do a legend.

I just use the Snipping Tool to capture each of the symbols. I then paste the symbol in the document and write a description of its meaning.

Yarn Over

SSK

This couldn’t be easier.

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