For the day after the pattern is finished
Drafting a pattern is the craft. Turning it into a tiled A4 file, a tiled Letter file, copyshop sheets and a projector file, then doing it all again for one small correction, is not. Sewpress does that part.
A small tool that does one job
Mathias Storm, Founder
Sewpress is run from Norway. It's for independent pattern designers: people who draft their own work, sell it themselves, and have better things to do than rebuild the same file four times.
You keep your pattern. We don't sell it, share it or train anything on it, and your master is deleted on a schedule you can see. Who can see your files.
We measure, then you can
Every output is opened again after it's built, and its test square is measured from the vectors and from a 600 dpi render. A file more than 0.1 mm out isn't delivered.
| File | Vectors | Render |
|---|---|---|
| A4 tiles | 100.00 mm | 100.03 mm |
| A0 sheet | 100.00 mm | 99.99 mm |
| Projector | 100.00 mm | 100.01 mm |
Don't take our word for it. Print the test square at 100% and hold a ruler to it.
What it can't do yet
Better you hear it here than after an upload.
Tiled files must be un-tiled first
If a piece runs off one page and carries on on the next, we refuse the file rather than leave every piece cut. Upload the master from before it was tiled. How to set one up.
DXF needs a test square and every size drawn
We read DXF from pattern CAD, plain or AAMA/ASTM, saved as text. If it doesn't say whether it's in mm or inches, you choose, and its test square has to confirm it, like any master's. Grading kept in a separate rule file (.rul) isn't applied, so export the sizes themselves.
50 MB masters
That's the limit for now, for everyone. A master over 50 MB is usually carrying embedded images: take them out and it should drop to a few MB.
Fonts must be embedded or outlined
A font we can't see can't be drawn. Embed fonts when you save the PDF, or turn type into outlines first.
3 mm margins on some copyshop sheets
Tight margins save paper, but a wide-format printer may not reach that close to the edge. If you choose them, ask your copyshop, and print one real sheet before you sell.
Nothing has been timed on large real files yet
“A few minutes” is what we expect, not a promise we've measured on the largest masters. We'll put a real number here once we have one.
Write to us
hello@sewpress.comWe reply within two working daysA question before you upload, a file that won't read, a fact on this site that's wrong: all of it comes to the same place.
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