This message was posted by Jeff on AmayaUsers.com. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY VIA EMAIL. Instead, respond to the thread on the WEBSITE by clicking here: http://www.amayausers.com/boards/ultimatebb.php?/topic/3/91.html#000004 Hi Peter, As I have not seen answers to your question about Design Shop digitizing, I felt I should jump in. Design Shop Pro+ is vector based. It is actually optimized to work with Adobe Illustrator. What I mean by optimized is that a copy and paste directly back and forth between the 2 programs is possible. If stitches have already been applied to some or all of the vector shapes in Design Shop, and the design copied and pasted to Illustrator and then changes made, and pasted back to Design Shop, the stitches are still there. Stitch Data is treated like vector data back and forth. If all objects in an embroidery file are selected, then copied and pasted into Illustrator, the vector objects can be edited, added to etc, then pasted back into Design Shop Pro+ and stitches will be applied to these edited or added pieces. If the file is saved out of Design Shop Pro+ as an EPS file, it can be opened in Illustrator, edited etc, then saved and re-opened in Design Shop and it will open as all embroidery files with stitches etc. This is a feature that only works with Illustrator and not Cor el Draw or other vector programs. Jeff Banks Melco Embroidery Systems =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================