Pattern from text in a word document?

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SephreniaMusic
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Pattern from text in a word document?

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I want to make a text pattern for a friend. I figured I'd try to make a text using wordart and then using KG-chart to make a pattern but I don't know if that's doable. My sister tried ones but it didn't work out. Any ideas?

Thanks for any help, :) SephreniaMusic

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Re: Pattern from text in a word document?

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I've always had trouble doing fonts in cross stitch, so I have these two sites on my bookmarks permanently. I've never found a way to use a MS Word doc to translate into KG Chart, it just gets too pixelated.
http://www.freepatternsonline.com/xscha ... habets.htm
http://nfggames.com/games/fontmaker/

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Re: Pattern from text in a word document?

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PC Stitch has fonts in the program for you to use but it's a huge pain to try and import words from a different program. I managed to do it when the words were jpeg but it took a lot of cleaning up.

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Re: Pattern from text in a word document?

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Thanks I'm looking at the different alphabets and fonts.

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Re: Pattern from text in a word document?

Post by Tadiera »

I've been making a lot of text cross-stitch patterns and I just use Photoshop (but I imagine any imaging program would work). Just design it there with the text feature, save as a .jpg, then use the program of choice to convert.

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Re: Pattern from text in a word document?

Post by SephreniaMusic »

Thank you Tadiera. I can't belive I didn't think of that :blush: Will try that :)

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