ArahPaint

Is a paint program included with the jacquard edition of ArahWeave. It is Arahne's opensource software so you can download it for free!

You'll love it because:

	•		it has all the tools you need for drawing
	•		enables motif placement and repeat (seamless) constructions
	•		can automatically detect a repeat in a scanned image, or recognize a scanned weave of any grid size.
	•		preview of the patteren in repeat
	•		Smart drawing of seamless patterns
	•		Special functions for working with contours - adding, removing, thinning, thickening, pruning
	•		Special functions for textile extra warp/weft or fil coupe design - count colors vertically or horizontally
	•		Horizontal or vertical ikat effect
	•		Vertical color histogram to evaluate relative color percentage according to the picutre
	•		Automatic or user controlled color reduction
	•		Threshold from grayscale to black & white color reduction with interactive preview
	•		enables transparent colors
	•		allows extra large images 65520x65520
	•		inserted text respect warp/weft density.
	•		Ruler in centimeters/inches or pixels
	•		notices uneven color distribuiton
	•		Printing in repeat with preview
	•		Supports layers
	•		Supports graphical formats in loading: PNG, GIF, PBM/PGM, PCX, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, all jacquard formats, ArahWeave weave format.
	•		Supported graphical formats in saving: PNG, JPG, TIFF.
	•		Unlimited undo/redo

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Introduction

The main window of ArahPaint has the toolbar on the right:

The most important feature of a jacquard picture editor is the ability to draw in zoom with user specifiable zoom factor and x/y grid ratio. The x/y ratio depends on the size of repeat, which you can set in mm, dpi, or simply enter the density of the fabric. You can zoom in and out of the picture during drawing operations!

And it is also wonderful to be able to specify complicated repeats, including mirrors and simply draw across the border of repeat.
ArahPaint repeat 38K

Integrated image browser

It is much easier to find your images for editing with the use of a graphical image browser. We have some features to cheer up the textile users:

	•		icon can be in repeat
	•		icon can show number of actually used colors
	•		program will show icon automatic icon preview of all image types and jacquard weave/card files
	•		if image is drawn with different density in x and y direction, the icon will still be correct.
	•		images can be sorted by name, type, image size, file size, type, number of used colors
	•		you can even display all images in all subdirectories within current directory
	•		and did we mention that it is FAST, and that it won't crash if you browse a directory with 80000 images?