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What each format actually stores, how to open one on a phone, how to get a design into the format your machine reads — and where the honest limits are.
What a .pes file is, how to view one on Android, and what to check before you hoop anything.
Why DST is everywhere, how to view one on a phone, and why it never shows the right thread colours.
What a real format conversion does to the stitches, and why changing the extension produces a file the machine refuses.
Janome's format: what it stores, how to view one, and how it differs from PES and DST.
Which machine reads which format, what each one stores, and which of them carry colour at all.
Six reasons a design will not load, in the order worth checking.
What the numbers on a design mean, and which ones decide whether it is worth starting.
Viewer, converter, digitizer — three different tools, and the one you need depends on what you have.
Why a printed colour-stop list beats a phone at the machine, and what belongs on it.
Husqvarna Viking and Pfaff's format: how to view one on a phone, and what it carries that a DST does not.
Why a Brother refuses a Janome design, what a real conversion rewrites, and what it leaves alone.
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