PDF Export

When it is time to actually stitch, most people want paper — or at least a proper chart on a tablet. PDF export produces the kind of chart you would expect from a bought pattern: a cover with the full preview, the chart itself, and a floss legend.

Chart styles

Choose how the chart is drawn, matching the editor’s view modes:

• Colors — filled color blocks. Beautiful, and great for color-printing small patterns.
• Hybrid — color blocks with symbols on top. The most readable on screen and in color print.
• Symbols — black-and-white symbols only. The classic, ink-friendly choice, and the most reliable for telling similar shades apart while stitching.

What the export includes

Multi-page charts. Big patterns split cleanly across pages with row and column numbers along the edges of every page. No guessing where page 3 joins page 4.

A floss legend. Each color with its symbol, code, and name in your selected thread brand — DMC, Anchor, Sullivans, J&P Coats, or Maxi. Take it to the store as your shopping list.

Backstitch. Your backstitch lines are drawn over the chart on every page they touch and listed in the legend with their floss codes.

A title page with the pattern preview, dimensions, and the details you set — title, author, and fabric count, so the finished size is printed right on the pattern.

Before you export

Two minutes of preparation makes a better chart: run confetti cleanup so the legend isn’t padded with two-stitch colors, and double-check your fabric count so the size on the cover matches your plans.