ZigZag 0.1.2

ZigZag 0.1.2

Fewer thread cuts, and fixes for sewing on the Skitch.

Fewer cuts

• Travel between the parts of a design stays out of sight wherever it can:
  through a fill (round its holes, through narrow necks) and under whatever
  is sewn later on top. Designs made of scattered blocks, such as dithers,
  sew with far fewer cuts (one test design went from 74 to 10).
• A fill in separate parts is sewn part by part, each part's underlay and
  top together, instead of going round every part twice.
• The Document panel's Connect setting is now a bar. Drag it to sew across
  the short gaps that are left; the panel counts the cuts it saves, and the
  canvas lights up the stitches it adds, since those will show. It now
  works between the parts of one object as well as between objects.

Skitch

• Every thread cut is tied off before and tied in after, however short the
  hop to the next area. Short hops used to be cut bare, which could let the
  loose thread pull back up and bunch at the needle.
• Pausing with the Skitch's own Start/Stop button now offers the needle
  controls (back and on by 1, 10 or 100 stitches, Thread Start, and
  dragging the progress bar).

Install on Mac

Download ZigZag.dmg, open it, and drag ZigZag into Applications.
Requires macOS 11 or later; one download supports Apple Silicon and Intel.
The app and DMG are signed and notarized by Apple.

ZigZag-0.1.2.dmg is the same download with the version in its filename.
SHA256SUMS.txt contains checksums for both filenames.

Install on Windows

Download ZigZag-0.1.2-x86_64-windows.zip, unzip it, and run
ZigZag.exe. Windows SmartScreen may warn the first time: choose
More info → Run anyway.