KXSTITCH(1)

💖 KXSTITCH(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the KXStitch User's Manual — yes that's the manual name, we're being official today 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

kxstitch — cross stitch pattern creator and editor by KDE 🧵👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kxstitch [file]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

KXStitch is the program that lets you create cross stitch patterns and charts, like, actually make them, from scratch. You build them on a grid of user defined size, and here's the cute part — you can enlarge or reduce that grid as your pattern progresses. Your canvas grows with you, main character energy fr fr 💅

OR, if you're feeling lazy (no judgment), you can import images from many graphics formats. That import lets you:

• reduce the number of colors 🎨
• restrict the conversion to full stitches, or optionally use fractional stitches ✨

You may also use an image as a background. Then all those imported images can be modified using the supplied tools to produce your final design. obsessed.

There are many tools to aid designing your pattern, and I mean many:

• open and filled rectangles and ellipses 🔲
• filled polygons and lines 📐
• backstitching 🪡

Additionally, cut, copy and paste can be used to duplicate selected areas. And selected areas can also be:

• rotated 90, 180 and 270 degrees anti clockwise 🔄
• mirrored horizontally or vertically 🪞

There's also a pattern library 💜 that can be used to store small and not so small portions of patterns, which can then be reused in other patterns. The patterns in these libraries are stored in a hierarchical list that makes it easy to sort and navigate them to find the ones you want. so tidy, we love a system.

These pattern libraries can also be used as alphabets by assigning a character to each one. By using the Alphabet tool, each key press is searched for in the current library, and if it's present, the associated pattern will be inserted in the pattern. it's giving typewriter but make it cross stitch 😭✨

When you're ready, you can print out your design in several formats. There are options to print out:

• cover sheets 📄
• instructions 📝
• a floss key including amount of thread used and number of stitches 🧵

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• file — Cross stitch document to open.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kxstitch — either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/kxstitch. 👑
• kf5options(7)
• qt5options(7)
• There is also further information available at the KXStitch home page[1]. 🦋

💜 AUTHORS 💜

KXStitch was written by Stephen Allewell <steve.allewell@gmail.com>. 🫶

💖 AUTHORS 💖

• Eric Pareja <xenos@upm.edu.ph>
  • First version of KXStitch man page for Debian project.
• Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor@ukr.net>
  • Updated man page.

⭐ NOTES ⭐

1. KXStitch home page http://userbase.kde.org/KXStitch

and that's the whole thing bestie!! this is KXStitch 2.0, dated 2016-06-29 — go forth and stitch, you absolute icon 💅✨🧵