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The Embroidermodder Project and Team

The Embroidermodder 2 project is a collection of small software utilities for manipulating, converting and creating embroidery files in all major embroidery machine formats. The program Embroidermodder 2 itself is a larger graphical user interface (GUI) which is at the heart of the project.

The tools and associated documents are:

  • The website https://www.libembroidery.org\item This reference manual covering the development of all these projects with the current version available here: https://www.libembroidery.org/embroidermodder_2.0_manual.pdf
  • The GUI Embroidermodder 2 covered in Chapter~\ref{GUI}.\item The core library of low-level functions: libembroidery, covered in Chapter~\ref{libembroidery}
  • The CLI embroider, which is part of libembroidery
  • Mobile embroidery format viewers and tools convered in Chapter~\ref{Mobile}.
  • Specs for an open source hardware embroidery machine extension called the Portable Embroidery Tool (PET) which is also part of libembroidery. See Chapter~\ref{PET}.

The website, this manual and some scripts to construct the distribution are maintained in %\citep{thewebsite}.

They all tools to make the standard user experience of working with an embroidery machine better without expensive software which is locked to specific manufacturers and formats. But ultimately we hope that the core Embroidermodder 2 is a practical, ever-present tool in larger workshops, small cottage industry workshops and personal hobbyist's bedrooms.

Embroidermodder 2 is licensed under the zlib license and we aim to keep all of our tools open source and free of charge. If you would like to support the project check out our Open Collective (https://opencollective.com/embroidermodder) group. If you would like to help, please join us on GitHub. This document is written as developer training as well helping new users (see the last sections) so this is the place to learn how to start changing the code.

The Embroidermodder Team is the collection of people who've submitted patches, artwork and documentation to our three projects. The team was established by Jonathan Greig and Josh Varga. The full list is actively maintained below.

Core Development Team

Embroidermodder 2:

\begin{itemize} \item Jonathan Greig (\url{https://github.com/redteam316}) \item Josh Varga (\url{https://github.com/JoshVarga}) \item Robin Swift (\url{https://github.com/robin-swift}) \end{itemize}

Embroidermodder 1:

\begin{itemize} \item Josh Varga (\url{https://github.com/JoshVarga}) \item Mark Pontius (\url{http://sourceforge.net/u/mpontius/profile}) \end{itemize}

\subsection{Credits for Embroidermodder 2, libembroidery and all other related code}

If you have contributed and wish to be added to this list, alter the README on Embroidermodder github page (https://github.com/Embroidermodder/Embroidermodder) and we'll copy it to the libembroidery source code since that is credited to The Embroidermodder Team.

\include{sections/credits.tex}

\section{History}

\subsection{Embroidermodder 1}

The Embroidermodder Team is also inspired by the original Embroidermodder that was built by Mark Pontius and the same Josh Varga on SourceForge which unfortunately appears to have died from linkrot. We may create a distribution on here to be the official legacy Embroidermodder code but likely in a seperate repository because it's GNU GPL v3 and this code is written to be zlib (that is, permissive licensed) all the way down.

One reason why this is useful is that the rewrite by Jonathan Greig, John Varga and Robin Swift for Embroidermodder 2 should have no regressions: no features present in v1 should be missing in v2.