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Welcome to the Ink/Stitch beginner tutorial series.

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In this part we are going to learn how to display your design

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and finally save it into an embroidery format that your machine can read.

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Whenever you are running the params dialogue in Ink/Stitch you will see the simulator.

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This is very important while planing your design, since you can visually see the changes as you make them.

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The simulator can also run without the params dialogue.

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In the customize tutorial we created a shortcut to open it with Ctrl+Shift+L,

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but this is a custom shortcut key and not available by default.

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If you don't have the shortcut key set, open the simulator through "Extensions > Ink/Stitch  > Simulator".

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It will simulate selected objects, or - if none is selected - the whole design.

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You can speed up and slow down the simulation with arrow up and arrow down or by using the corresponding buttons.

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You can swith the playback to be backwards or forwards with arrow left or right.

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Pause and restart the animation with the space bar.

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Move the animation step by step with plus or minus.

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Restart the animation with "R".

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You can also grab the slider and move it to an other position

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or jump to an specific point by entering a number.

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You should pause the simulaton before doing so.

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During the animation you can see the current speed in the status bar,

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beside of the information if the current command is fe. a stitch, trim or stop command.

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When you are done, close the simulator with "Q".

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While the simulator is very useful, you sometimes will need to see a realistic preview of your design.

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This way you can get a better impression of your stitch length settings, etc.

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In Ink/Stitch you will have access to a realistic preview through the print function.

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The print function will open in your default browser.

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Run "Extensions > Ink/Stitch  > Print".

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The print sheet that you will see is meant to be used either by operator or customer.

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But before we look into these options we want to discover the realistic preview.

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Move your mouse over the embroidery image.

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On the bottom of the canvas you will see different options to scale the design.

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You can also hit Ctrl and scroll the mouse-wheel to scale it up and down.

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With the left mouse button you can grab it and move it somewhere else.

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"Fit" will scale the design to fit into the canvas.

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100% will scale it to real size.

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Once you are satisfied with scaling and position you can apply the transforms to all other pages where the design is displayed.

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Finally we enable the "Realistic" checkbox. It may take a while before it is being displayed.

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Now let's have a look into the other settings in the print sheet.

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Go to settings.

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First you will see basic page setup options.

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Depending on your country you will want to choose either "Letter" or "A4" paper format.

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Then you have different layout options, depending on the purpose you want to use the print-out for.

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The operator detailed view comes with an other option,

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where you can define the size of the thumbnails through a slider.

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In the branding tab you can change the page header logo.

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And enter your contact information which will be displayed in the page footer.

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Open the estimated time tab.

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Here you can specify information about your machine and workflow to roughly calculate the time that will be needed to stitch out the design.

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You might not want this information to be displayed on every layout type.

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Disable those, where it shouldn't appear.

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In the design tab you can change the thread palette.

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If you used palettes while editing your design in Inkscape,

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the print preview will already use these colors.

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In other cases or if you want to change the displayed thread palette you can edit the setting here.

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All colors in the design will be recalculated and previous changes will be lost.

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Page Setup, Branding and Estimated Time settings can be saved as defaults and be used for every new design.

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Close the settings dialogue and have a look to the page header.

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You will see fields indicating that you can enter custom text.

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So you can define a title for this particular design, enter the clients name and purchase order.

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On detailed views you can also change the thread and color name manually.

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The operator detailed view also has a field for custom notes for each thread.

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When you are done with all settings use the print button.

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You can print it with your printer, but in most cases you would want to print to PDF, so you can send the PDF-file to your customer or operator.

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When everything is done, click on the close button to regain access to Inkscape, which has been locked while you were editing the print preview.

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All settings you've made in the print preview will be saved into the SVG file,

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so you don't have to do everything twice in case you want to change your design.

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Embroider is an older function which has been very important before the simulator existed.

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With the new functionality you will rarely be using it. But still there might be possible usecases.

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Open "Extensions > Ink/Stitch  > Embroider"

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The dialogue comes with a few options.

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You will want to set the output file format to one,

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that your machine can read.

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If you leave "Directory" empty,

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the output file will be saved in the Inkscape's extensions directory.

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You might want to change this. Enter a path.

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When you hit "Apply" Ink/Stitch will perform two actions:

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It will save an embroidery file on your computer

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It will display the output in Inkscape - while hiding all other layers if the option was enabled in the embroider dialogue.

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Now you can inspect and modify the output in Inkscape.

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The so newly created path is a stroke with manual stitch placement enabled.

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A more comfortable way to export to an embroidery file is to use the "File > Save as..." export function.

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Here you can choose the file format for your machine.

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All file format names start with Ink/Stitch, so you can easily find them in the list.

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Enter the filename and click on "Save".

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Don't forget to also save your design in the SVG file format,

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just in case you want to perform changes at a later time.

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You can also open embroidery files with Ink/Stitch.

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Just right click on the file in your file browser and choose "Open with > Inkscape".

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An other possibility would be to open Inkscape

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and go to "File > Open...", choose your file in the dialgoue and click on "Open".

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Imported embroidery files will be displayed as a stroke in manual stitch mode.

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For certain file formats like "dst" colors may vary from your expectations,

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because they cannot save color information.

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We hope you enjoyed the tutorial. Now you have seen all the Ink/Stitch functions.

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In the next video we will demonstrate a typical workflow and put all the pieces together.