PDF Stitcher Part III: New & Improved Tutorial
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- PDF Stitcher is now new and improved! This is the tutorial showing all the amazing new features.
Charlotte Curtis, a member of the Projectors for sewing group, created this wonderful app to allow Windows and Mac users to digitally put together PDF patterns! It has since grown so that the newest version still accomplishes that task, as well as adds margins, and preserves layers but now also can alter lines to thicken them, change color, change line style, choose which layers to keep and which to discard, and so much more!
Find it at: www.PDFStitcher.org, with a download link right at the top of the page.
If you haven’t seen it yet, here is an interview I did with Charlotte back when version 3 was just being released. You can hear about the creation of PDF Stitcher there: • PDF Stitcher Part I: I...
You can also see the tutorial for version 3 in this next video. I don’t cover all this ground again in this week’s video, so definitely check this out if you’re brand new to PDF Stitcher. • PDF Stitcher Part II: ...
There are even more resources for this available in the Projectors for sewing Facebook group. groups/projectorsforsewing
This excerpt is from one of Sasha's wonderful guides (bit.ly/ProjectingTopTips):
You may get warnings not to install software from the internet. These links explain how to override those warnings (in addition, using Chrome or Firefox to download will work better than Safari or Edge):
Mac: support.apple.com/en-ca/guide...
if you get a warning on Mac to “Move to Trash” or cancel - choose trash and then remove it from trash. You may also need to go to "System Preferences" then "Security and Privacy" then "General" tab and click “Allow” to open app from an unregistered developers
Spreadsheet link: bit.ly/PDFPatternAssemblyInfo Definitely check there first if you have a question. You can always ask me in my Facebook group, in the Projectors for sewing group, or leave a bug report for Charlotte on the PDF Stitcher website.
Note: I used points to change my line thickness. You can also use inches or cm. This is very helpful for patterns without seam allowance. You can make your line say 5/8" and that has now automatically added your 5/8" seam allowance to a pattern that didn't have it included.
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You did a great job as usual. Thanks so much for doing this for us x
Thank you for your encouragement!
Thank you for this … I spent the afternoon going through my most used patterns ‘stitching’ them ready to use with my projector when it finally gets installed!
Yay! It’s SUCH a handy tool!
Thank you so much for this video.
Thank you so very much for explaining PDF stitched in a way that my old rusty ADHD brain can can understand!! You are an absolute rockstar 💙💙💙💙
I’m so glad it was helpful! There are lots of ADHD brains in my house. ❤️
Thank you so much for this ----- very helpful.
I’m glad it helped!
This was a great video. Thanks you!
Thank you!
Great video. Thank you!
I’m glad it was helpful!
Thanks!
Thank you for a great video. Would it be possible to to see how the interactive tool and pen would work with your ust 🙏🏽. Your videos are so easy to follow and I can find any relating to sewing.
Thank you for the kind words and suggestion! That is on a very long list of videos I want to do. Right now, I am having trouble finding time to make new videos but I really miss it and my “what to make” video list just keeps growing.
When I try with some patterns it works very well, but with others it doesn't, strange... I try to understand what's wrong and I'll tell you 😉 thank you again!!
Which part doesn’t work well sometimes? If it’s the line thickening, make sure you’re using the newest version! One past version had a bug that meant it didn’t work for some patterns.
I have 0.6.1 PDF Stitcher version , it seams to be the latest, isn't it?
These tutorials are great. Any chance you might do one where you guide through how to move the pattern pieces around?
Hmm…move them around in what way? While cutting or on the page to prepare for projecting?
@@DaileySewsStuff No need to respond. This had everything to do with the bug that got fixed. I was not able to move my pattern pieces around in adobe through PDF Stitcher but Charlotte fixed that bug and now I am fine! Thank you!
I’m confused about when PDF Stitcher is needed. What situations would this app come in handy? Is this something someone would use if a PDF pattern company doesn’t offer size layering? BTW....you are an amazing speaker. You explain things in a very easy-to-understand way. I enjoy your videos and have a projector all mounted and set up thanks to your guided instructions.
Thank you so much!!
PDF Stitcher was originally designed to be used when a pattern only came in Letter/A4 sizes. The program would stitch the pages together digitally, like printing and taping. We also use it when a pattern has layers in the Letter/A4 document but not in the A0 file.
PDF Stitcher preserves layers but can’t add them in.
The new version also works for patterns that have lines that are just too faint or the wrong color or line style to easily see while projecting.
And I am very often using it to add margins around the outside of my patterns! So helpful to be able to move them wherever needed.
Hi, how do you use PDF Stitcher to change a pdf Letter pattern into a printing size equivalent or about the same as a A0 size to send to a printing company that prints it for you similar to how patterns come in a physical envelope?
I don’t think I addressed this much in this video, since I was focusing on the new features, but I do have a previous video that shows that function. Basically, you use the middle tab called “Tile” to input the information for it to put your puzzle together!
@Dailey Sews & Stuff I'm going to be cutting an Apostrophe pattern on dark fabric, so I feel I need to thicken the lines to see them for projecting. PDF stitcher version 8 will not let me select layers...I don't have any layers in this pattern...how can I thicken the lines? I'm probably just missing something simple....
That’s a downside to PDF Stitcher-it can’t change lines when a file doesn’t have layers! Charlotte has said she’s thinking on how to solve this but hasn’t come up with a solution yet. You can invert colors on your computer/on Adobe. Newer Apostrophe patterns give the option to download inverted files with black background and lime green pattern lines. Or, if you have Inkscape or Affinity Designer or Adobe Illustrator, you can change the lines pretty easily in those programs. A few more clicks than PDF Stitcher but not terribly hard!
Can you change the line color and thickness on the already created projector files? Or does the stitcher program only work with the pieced PDF files? Thank you so much for you tutorials! They are so helpful
You can change the color and thickness of almost any pdf pattern with the new version!
@@DaileySewsStuff I tried with my LLK
pattern and it doesn’t change the color or thickness when I upload the Projector File. Maybe I’m doing something wrong?
@@jessicastarrett202 hmm. I am 90% sure I’ve done an LLK projector file before. Are you following all the steps where you tell it to “apply to checked” and everything else?
@@DaileySewsStuff now it’s working! 🤷🏼♀️🤣. Lol! I have no idea why it wouldn’t upload the saved file. Thank you so much for your time and assistance 💗
Exciting! Thanks a lot! I have a problem: I don't have access to the layer menu in stitcher: it's displayed in gray and you can't click to de-select or change the color of the lines. However, the pdf patterns that I use include layers... how do I do that?
Hmm. Usually when that happens either you haven’t opened a pattern yet or that pattern doesn’t have layers included (it may be different sizes but all on one layer).
Yes, thank you for your answer! I know but I think it's really a bug, I will try again and tell you...
Is there a way to stitch zipped files? I haven’t been able to figure it out. Also, if a pattern has a file for large format printing, but no layers in that file, is there anyway to make the layers usable? I have several Hey June patterns that I would like to project, but can’t figure it out. I’ve asked the designer if there would ever be projector files and got a flat NO!
That’s unfortunate for the designer because I think this is the future of patterns so she’s losing a lot of customers!
You’ll have to extract the zipped file first but if it’s a PDF it would work. If it’s a different file type, it would not. The Projectors fir Sewing group has a lot of people knowledgeable about Inkscape that might be able to give you direction for non-PDF files.
PDF Stitcher preserves layers, not creates them. Often, an A0 file won’t have layers but the Letter/A4 file will so we stitch the Letter/A4 to get a layered document. That may be something you could work on in Inkscape, as well, but I’m not knowledgeable enough about it to know.
I don’t get the icon. Not a real problem but I need to find it every time.
I'm not sure what you mean. The icon isn't on your desktop? So you have to search your computer for the program each time? You should be able to move it to your desktop from wherever it saved! Search for it, click "open file location" rather than the program itself, then drag the icon to your desktop!
if you right click on the executable and go to properties, you can choose "unblock". Then it shouldn't give you that warning when running the app
It only gives the warning the very first time. But I had no idea there was another way around that. Thanks!
windows will usually do that on any downloaded executable. It used to not even do that warning, just error and not function correctly. I used to do desktop support and have my share of fun with it :).
Will this work on an iPad?
No. It only works on computers. Charlotte has said she has no plans to do a mobile app at this time.
You can use Affinity Designer on an iPad or Vectornator like you’d use Inkscape. Or use a computer to Stitch the patterns and use your iPad to project.
I can't get PDF stitcher to output Love Notions Laundry Day Tee... I'm so confused. HELP...
Laundry Day Tee has a projector file. But it does benefit from a border if I remember right. Which part are you stuck at?
I have added a border to this pattern's projector file.
Bonjour je n’arrive pas à le télécharger
Oh no! Go to www.pdfstitcher.org/ to download now. And then make sure you're doing the step where you say "run anyway."
@@DaileySewsStuff merci beaucoup