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Print a chart or save a PDF

Print / Export prints your chart and key, or saves them as a PDF or a picture.

Follow along, or read the steps below. Turn captions on in the player if you want them.

Open Print / Export

Press Print / Export in the side panel, or choose File › Print / Export… (Ctrl+P).

Choose what goes in

Open Print / Export for a large page preview. Under What to export, choose Graph (chart), Written pattern or Graph + written pattern. Set Pattern size and Page setup; open More options & styling for the other choices. Choose Cancel to stop a large export while it prepares.

Tick the parts you want:

  • Cover and pattern info
  • Include notes: plain-text pages after the cover. This option appears when the chart has notes and starts on. Untick it to leave notes out. See Chart notes.
  • Materials and color key (the skein and yardage figures on it come with the paid plans; the color key and stitch counts always print), with Lot numbers from My yarn when you keep dye lots (see How much yarn, and dye lots)
  • Copyright and terms
  • Chart pages
  • Add black-and-white symbol sheets: a second set of the same chart in symbols, after your color pages
  • Written instructions (paid plans; see Written row-by-row instructions)

For a pattern maker garment, Print / Export starts on This piece; see Pattern maker for whole-garment printing and every-size export.

  • Print… sends it to your printer.
  • Save PDF… saves it as a PDF file.
  • Save picture… saves the chart as a PNG picture (recommended for charts), and Save JPEG… as a JPEG.

Under Picture, Look chooses Chart or Finished look for the picture you save.

StitchWing tells you when it's done, names the file, and offers Show to find it.

If a page cannot be prepared

If StitchWing cannot prepare all your pages, it shows a message and does not start printing. Check the chart and try Print… again. If it keeps failing, report the problem.

What's free

A chart imported from another program above the free size limit is view only on the free version and can’t be printed or exported: see Open charts from other programs.

Your printouts and PDFs always use the chart's own colors, not your app theme.

Still stuck?

Email us. Tell us what you were trying to do and what you saw, and we’ll reply to the address you write from.

support@stitchwing.com

Or use the contact form.

Using StitchWing on your computer? Help › Report a problem… in the app sends your message with the details we need.