Originally Posted by
stella63
I have a Bernina 830, I cannot afford £1000 for the embroidery software are there any other cheaper designs that I could use or down load that are compatible? I have a laptop with windows 7 I'm not a Mac user .
Stella, why don't you start with <cite style="FONT-STYLE: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">
http://www.wingssystems.com/index.php/products/myeditor/ It is free, and you can view images of your downloaded designs, change formats & colors, alter size, rotate, cut away parts you don't like, merge 2 designs together--and much more. Or you could try Pulse Ambassador-- </cite>
It shows the image, changes colors, reformats, prints w/all thread info.
Free viewer <cite style="FONT-STYLE: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto">
http://www.sharewareconnection.com/pesview.htm</cite> or
a free viewer from Embroidermodder....there are several more but I like
My Editor and
Pulse when I choose not to connect my P E Design software. Or you can try some 30 day trials before you consider buying. There's Embird,
http://www.sandscomputing.com/id47.html (sewwhatpro & other choices) If you only want to see images of your designs, I have Embrilliance Thumbnailer and I love it, because all my designs are images all the time...there are many formats you can set it to display, and it only cost about $40. When I unzip a folder with many designs, it shows the image of the one that is my format--the rest are just icons. Try the free stuff before making an expensive decision--it all depends on what you want to do right now!
OOPS...unless your machine uses the .srt format. In that case you will have to buy the Bernina software to do anything, or so I have heard.