User Guide

52 – BuzzEdit
™
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®
, Inc.
When design files are converted using BuzzEdit
™
, the best possible
match is made from the colors available. In some cases, this may
involve selecting a secondary color choice in order to preserve color
stops.
This PCS file was converted from a DST that contained only
color stop information. Therefore, the colors displayed represent
color stops and not the colors you would choose to sew.
DST and EXP files do not contain any color information. They do
have color breaks, that is, markers in the file that tell the machines
to stop sewing, but no actual color values. Therefore, when these
are opened in a program, such as BuzzEdit
™
, the color stops are
assigned an arbitrary color value. You will have to change the thread
colors in BuzzEdit
™
to get an attractive picture.
When EXP or DST designs are converted to another file format that
requires the color value, BuzzEdit
™
does not know what color the
digitizer intended for the color breaks. Should color break one be
green (for a tree) or blue (for sky)? Therefore, when the file is
converted, BuzzEdit
™
assigns arbitrary color choices to the file.
These choices do not relate to an actual color value but represent
the color break present in the original file. You will have to change
the thread colors in BuzzEdit
™
to get an attractive picture.
When BuzzEdit
™
converts a design that contains color values into an
EXP or a DST file, BuzzEdit
™
preserves the color information in an
auxiliary file. EXP and DST files with BuzzEdit
™
auxiliary files will
display in color within BuzzEdit
™
, but may only display color breaks
when opened in other programs.