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New Features
The Libraries
- Overall friendlier interface
- View the Library and the Project Sketchbook items in the same dialog
- Select multiple items to add to the Sketchbook with one click
- Select multiple items and delete them from the Sketchbook with one click
- Ability to sort and delete from the Project Sketchbook from within the Library
- Ability to link to other EQ product libraries from within the Library dialog
- Expanded notecards than can flip and be pinned down for viewing continuous items
- Import items from other EQ projects
- Ability to display more items within the dialog
- Ability to build My Library files for all design items
- Efficient copy and paste procedures for building custom libraries
- Unlimited My Library files
- Easy interface for naming libraries and styles
- Search for blocks by pre-defined categories like construction method or skill level
- Search for fabrics by text or color
- Search for layouts, embroidery or photos by text
- Search for thread by text or color
- Import fabric scans or photo images using BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF formats
- Import embroidery designs using EXP format
- Addition of a Photo Library
- Addition of a Thread Library
- Ability to create thread by RGB values
The Project Sketchbook
- Ability to see more than one quilt at a time
- Separate sections for embroidery, photos and thread
- Ability to move the entire dialog
- Expanded notecards that can be flipped and pinned
- Double-click to edit blocks and quilts to the worktable
- Sort capability for all sections
- Context menus for additional functionality specific to the section
Printing and Exporting
- Rotate templates before printing
- Option for larger key block for template patterns and rotary cutting charts
- Resizable foundation pattern dialog
- Improved labeling of foundation patterns
- Increased control over EQ’s foundation numbering scheme
- Saving of foundation numbering
- Ability to print partial foundation patterns
- Ability to select setting triangles and print clipped blocks patterns
- Mirror option for printing blocks
- Prints template patterns for text set on quilt
- Export metafiles with fill color or with outline and fill
- Export high resolution images in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, and TIFF formats
Quilt Worktable
- New on-point layout style
- More options for locking sliders so they move together instead of separately
- More size information readily available within the palettes
- Two new border styles
- Ability to hide or show layers on the quilt as you’re designing
- Option for always starting with a 4x4 horizontal layout
- Default border style is user settable
- Create a custom quilt layout from a block drawing with just a click
- Rulers for the quilt worktable
- Adjustable origin for the quilt rulers
- New Set Applique Text tool
- New Random Recolor tool
- New Set Auto Borders tool
- New Set Photo tool
- New Set Embroidery tool
- New Thread tools
- New Rotate Fabric tool
- New Erase Block tool
- New Paintbrush tools for freehand coloring of patches
- Friendlier interface for viewing block colorings and selecting a coloring
- Ability to add a plain block
- New position for the graph pad
- Ability to center a block in the quilt
- Fussy cut positioning of fabric is saved with the quilt
Block Worktable
- New precision bar for easier drawing board adjustments
- Ability to draw pieced PatchDraw blocks
- Addition of special grids: 8 point star, circle, arc, kaleidoscope, octagon
- New PolyDraw tools
- Settable grid dot size
- Settable color for grid dots
- Ability to hide or show layers on the block as you’re drawing
- Ability to center selected segments
- New Ellipse tool for drawing appliqué
- New Rectangle tool for drawing appliqué
- New Brush Stroke tool for drawing appliqué
- New Freehand tool for drawing appliqué
- Shape Bezier curves by dragging directly on the curve
- Auto selection of segment as soon as it’s drawn
- Tool specific precision bars for greater customization of drawing techniques
- Saving of fussy cut position of fabric
- Auto fill when patches are closed using PatchDraw
- Saving of open patches
- Adjust the stacking order of patching on the drawing layer or the color layer
- Serendipity options for creating new blocks by tilting, merging or framing
- Block palette on the color tab for quick editing of blocks
- Improved options for importing an image for tracing.
Overall
- Fabric scales based on the size of the block or quilt
- Most Recently Used Fabrics appear at the top of the fabrics palette
- Add and remove tools from toolbar
- Display large or small tools
- Customize the style of the tools
- Flyout tools for greater flexibility of tools
- Ability to restore to original default settings
- Large video screen with more videos
- Quick quilt projects
- Dynamic Toolhelp window
- Worktable tools for quickly changing worktables
- Implementation of an intro splash screen
- Tip of the Day option on startup or from the Help menu
Notes for Owners of Previous Versions:
- EQ4 to 6: Registered users of EQ4 and EQ5 are eligible for this upgrade.
- EQ1, EQ2, EQ3: No. We're sorry, but your software is 10-15 years old. You will need to get the complete EQ6 program at its full price.
About the Upgrade
I don't have the right computer system right now, but will have XP in a few months. Can I buy the upgrade now and install it later?
Yes, you can take advantage of the special offer and install EQ6 when you get your new computer.
When I install EQ6, will I be able to maintain and run both EQ5 and EQ6 on the same computer?
Yes. EQ5 will work independently of EQ6, and you can have both on the same computer.
If I get the EQ6 Upgrade, will I still get the EQ6 user manual?
Yes. The EQ6 Upgrade is identical to EQ6. The only difference is that the CD for the EQ6 Upgrade needs EQ5 to be currently installed on the computer on which you install EQ6.
I have EQ1, EQ2, or EQ3, can I get the EQ6 Upgrade or a discount?
No. We're sorry, but your software is 10-15 years old. You will need to get the complete EQ6 program at its full price.
Can I use the free, downloaded EQ5 palettes in EQ6? Will there be future Palettes of the Month?
Yes. You'll be able to quickly and easily import from your EQ5 palettes through the EQ6 Fabric Library. And yes, there will indeed be new free fabrics to download, and some free projects too coming up.
What will happen to my EQ5 projects if I open them in EQ6?
When you open an EQ5 (PJ5) file in EQ6, the file will be untitled. So your EQ5 file will remain in EQ5, untouched. You will also now have a copy of it in EQ6 and can work on it and save it in EQ6, which will make it an EQ6 file.
You will then have two files: Your original PJ5 file and your new PJ6 file.
Alternatively, from the EQ6 Library, you can import blocks, fabrics or layouts (unfilled blank layouts) from EQ4, EQ5 or EQ6 projects, and can import photos and embroidery from EQ5 or EQ6 projects. So it will be quick and easy to merge items from various projects as you work (something you can’t do in EQ5). If you want a completed quilt (filled with blocks, fabric etc.) you need to open the project file with FILE > Open, rather than importing from the Library.
Will all my other EQ Company software, like BlockBase, Dear Jane and the Classic Applique blocks link with EQ6?
Yes.
If I buy the EQ6 upgrade by mistake, and can’t install it because I don’t have EQ5, can I return it?
No. The EQ6 upgrade is not returnable.
General System Requirements:
- Wndows XP or Vista
- Internet access for activation (4 activations included)
- CD-ROM drive
- Monitor with screen resolution of 1024 x 768 or greater
- sound card recommended for demo videos
Additional Requirements for EQ5 to EQ6 Upgrade:
EQ5 must be installed for the installation to work.
About the System Requirements
I don’t have Windows XP, will EQ6 work on my computer?
No, EQ6 only runs on Windows XP and newer operating systems.
Will EQ6 run on my Macintosh computer?
We have not had a chance to test this yet. The emulation software used, however, would need to be for Windows XP in order for the software to install.
I don’t have internet access; will I be able to install EQ6?
No. We’re sorry, but internet access is necessary. Once the program is installed, activated,and registered,internet access is no longer required.
I often like to work on my computer outside, when it's not connected to the Internet. Will this work with EQ6?
Yes. The computer only needs to be connected to the internet for installation, activation and registration. After EQ6 is completely installed, EQ6 does not need to be connected to the internet.
About Activation
If EQ6 only has four activations, does it take an activation each time I have to reinstall the program?
Once you install EQ6 on a computer, reinstalling on that same computer is not considered an activation, unless you change the computer considerably, such as getting a new hard drive. This means under normal situations you can install and reinstall continuously on the same computer.
When you purchase software, most or at least some software only allow you to legally install on one computer. So if you have a PC and a laptop, that would require two separately purchased and registered copies to be legal. Is that true for EQ as well?
EQ allows more installation possibilities. We realize you may have a desktop, a laptop, a computer at work, and possibly one at another home, and want to install EQ6 on all of them. This does not break copyright law, since you are the only one using EQ6 on these computers. But there are only 4 activations possible. If you bought a new computer and have already used 4 activations, you would not be able to install again.
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