Iconizer

Iconizer works together with Windows Explorer or File Explorer, as it is called in Windows 8. The principle of Iconizer plug-in is simple: normally, when you run Explorer and you are not using the Iconizer plug-in, each design file is represented by a generic “type” icon. Registered Iconizer shows a small icon of the embroidery design instead. This allows you to browse and sort your designs easily, because you can see the content of embroidery files while using all features of the Explorer and other Windows programs that use Explorer’s standard dialog windows.

Iconizer uses Embird’s library to read embroidery files. Therefore, it supports the same embroidery formats as Embird software.

Windows Explorer was renamed to File Explorer in Windows 8. It serves to access and manipulate the files stored on your computer. In case of embroidery files, Iconizer draws pictures of their content and sends them to Explorer to display either as icons or as thumbnails. Iconizer also provides information like stitch count, design size, colour number, etc., to display in Explorer’s pop-up menu.

The first step is to choose desired size of icons in Iconizer settings. The second step is to choose icon enlargement in Explorer. The medium size in Explorer is equal to basic icon size in Iconizer settings. Select larger icon size in Explorer’s View menu for more detailed preview of designs, if needed.

Icons in above example are too small. Select larger size for better detail.

Iconizer does more than just display a picture of the design. It provides textual information about design like dimensions, stitch count and so on. Also, it provides links to services like printing, editing or conversion of design in Embird software. These links and the textual information are accessible via pop-up menu that appears on right mouse button click on design icon in Explorer. See Iconizer tutorial for more information.

Right click on embroidery file icon to invoke the pop-up menu with Embird commands and information about design.