It is our hope that this format will be added to other suppliers products (it is not a big job), so that if/when a supplier goes out of business (which has happened many times over the years due to financial, health, or retirement reasons), designs created using package X will be usable in package Y
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At a minimum, it will allow designs created using Ursa Software products to be easily 'understood' by other products or suppliers in the future. The Open Cross Stitch (OXS) file format is an attempt to break down the barriers that exist between these software packages, so that (if need be), any software package can create a file that can be understood by any other package. Similarly, anyone who wishes to use a new or additional software product will find that work created on one package cannot be used in another - until now it would have to have been recreated. Įffectively, such work is lost - or needs to be created from scratch, which is a shame.
This has meant that designs created in 'dead' software packages such as Eas圜ross, or Myriacross, to name just two, can no longer be opened or used in any software product that is still on sale. Rather like having each product speak a different language without an interpreter. The file formats were proprietary, and unless details of the algorithm used to create these was shared, one software product was unable to make use of data created in another. Invariably, this file format was a binary one - sometimes using ‘standard’ routines from the development language, sometimes using custom developed routines.
Throughout the history of computers in the home, and their use in designing cross stitch (or similar) patterns, each software manufacturer has created a file format that was suitable for their individual needs. Cross Stitch software has now been around for over 30 years.ĭuring that time, suppliers have come and gone, and no doubt new software will be developed in the future.
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