SymbolEditor Documentation

Introduction

The symbol editor is used to create cross stitch symbols for the KXStitch application. Originally KXStitch relied on standard character fonts to supply these symbols, but differences in user languages and the quality of the fonts available along with the alignment of the characters and the limited number available has driven the need to create a dedicated symbol set.

The symbol set will be stored in a file and several files can be created depending on the users needs, for example having a halloween symbol set for halloween themed patterns.

Each of the files will contain a series of symbols which will be displayed in the symbol library tab. Editing of existing symbols can be done by double clicking the entry in the library which will populate the editor with this symbol. Alternatively new symbols can be created and added to the library.

The User Interface

• Main Window
  • File Menu
  • Edit Menu
    • File and Edit Toolbar
  • Rendering Menu
  • Tools Menu
    • Tools Toolbar
• Editor
  • Editor Tools
  • Path Rendering
  • Points
  • Editing Symbols
• Symbol Library

License

SymbolEditor is provided as free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.