Hi Lisa, Don't bother with the Dakota sizer software, it is a really trimmed down, bare-bones version of what I'm thinking is an older version of Melco software. I used it for a short time before getting design shop and pitched it when I got DS. BTW, I had an all-satin stitch design of a golfer silhouette that was 7 inches high and I needed to reduce to 4 inches. I resized in 3 programs and stitched them out side by side: Dakota sizer, Brother PE-design 4.0 and HV Stitch Editor. The HV program made the satin stitches into zizzag stitches, the poorest outcome of the 3. The Dakota program was much better, but a little "rough". The Brother program did a beautiful job, it was a smooth resize, no changes in the look of the design. I keep the PE design on my computer for tough resizes; I purchased for $50 on Ebay and use the 4.0 version because it doesn't require the reader/writer box, it has a parallel port dongle. NAYY, and all that stuff, LOL! Edna www.etchedinthread.com -----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Wolf Embroidery Sent: Friday, March 03, 2006 12:34 PM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Re: Dakota Sizer Software Does anyone own and use the Dakota sizer Software, does it offer anything that the Amaya software does not? I have found that when resizing in Design shop that I still need to send it to a digitizer, was wondering if the Dakota Software would help me. Lisa Wolf Embroidery Wolfemb@xxxxxxxx Lisa and Don Ridley