Windows Vista no longer automatically includes the WinHlp32 program which is required to display the help files provided with Fiberworks PCW. Instead, Vista uses a new system called HTMLHelp.

We are working to create a new version of Fiberworks PCW with HTMLHelp files.

In the mean time, if you wish to use the built in help files, you can download a copy of WinHlp32 (intended for Windows Vista) from the Microsoft website. Go to:
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=82148

Microsoft does not permit us to distribute the Winhelp program with our Fiberworks PCW package.

"Help" refers to pages that are displayed when you go to the Help item in the main PCW menu and select Help Topics, or if you press the F1 key within the Fiberworks PCW program, or click a "Help" button in a dialog within Fiberworks PCW.

The Fiberworks manual is not affected and is fully functional. The manual is a separate item which appears as a separate icon or entry in the Fiberworks folder.

 2. How do I change thread thickness?

a.  With the mouse. Click in the thread thickness bar, which resembles an comb above the warp color bar or to the right of the weft color bar. Left click doubles width, right click halves it.

b.  With the keyboard. Click in the first thread to be changed and type a thickness from 1 to 64. Default thickness is 4, which results in a square cell in the threading or treadling draft. Move cursor to next thread and type in a number.

c. With the menu. The warp or weft thickness menu allow you to fill the draft with 5 different common thick and thin thread orders.

Yes!
Go to Preview and Print and select Print Options. Make a check mark in the box next to Numeric if possible. This will allow numbers to printed in the draft if the epi in the printing is 12 or less.
When thick and thin picks are used, the numbers appear to be misaligned, especially if very thin picks are used

Yes. It’s easy.

a. To print only a threading, treadling, tieup or cloth:
Go to Preview and Print and select Print Options. From the drop down text box select the part of the draft you want to print. If you make a check mark next to Print on one page if possible, threading will be printed in several rows across the page or treadling will be printed in several columns on the page.

b. To print a specific portion of the whole design:
Resize the window containing the design. Take the cursor and place it at the edge of the Window until it turns into a double headed arrow. Then drag till the Window is the desired size. Adjust the magnification as necessary. Use the scroll bar so that only the desired part is visible.
Go to Preview and Print and select Screen View Only in the Print Setup dialog.

c. To print specific pages only:
Go to Preview and print and set up the pages as you desire. Use next page until you see what you want to print, adjust the Print Setup until it is all to your liking. After you hit the Print button, the Print dialogue appears. This allows you to print all, some or one specific page.

Note: If you have a design that requires 5 pages across and 3 pages down, 15 pages are needed not 8.

Before beginning printing, go to File / Print Setup. Select the landscape or portrait orientation, paper size, printer and printer properties.

Note: Set the paper size and orientation before going to Preview and Print. Otherwise you will get some odd results!
Note: You cannot print a drawup, threading at the bottom, or with treadling on the left.

Yes.
To modify a color in the design, use the color picker tool and click on the color to be changed.
It now appears in the active color patch on the top right of the screen.
To modify the color, right click on the patch, and the Color Modify dialogue will appear. Watch the color change as you work. Instantly.

If you have modified the colors in the palette, save the design you are working on, then clear all data except the colors in the draft and save it as a new file. Use an obvious name such as palet01.dtx to make it easy to find in the future.

Note: If the colors in the warp or weft color bars are the default values, the new palette will not be saved. You must use the new colours in the warp or weft to be saved.

To save just a component of a design, such as the threading or the tieup, go to the Edit / Select All and copy the components you want to use. Open a new design and paste into the blank design in the normal way.

To extract a component from a saved design, open it in the normal way. Copy the component by Edit / Select All. Check only the parts you want to copy and then paste into the design you are working on. Only the selected components will appear in the new design.

It’s a little devious, but it can be done.
When colors from from a design using palette A are pasted into a design using palette B, the colors are combined by rejecting unused colors in palette B.
Open two designs with the appropriate palettes, either from the Color Palette menu, or custom designed ones. Enter the colors needed into the warp color bar of each design, copy and paste the set of colors from the first design into the weft bar of the second design. This will ensure that you keep all of the colors from both designs.
If there are more than 80 colors being used in total, then the added colors will be changed to nearest best match.

If only one or two new colors from one designs are needed. Open the Modify Color dialogue and look at the color codes for each of those colors. Go to the new design and adjust unused colors in the existing palette with the Modify Colors dialogue.

 10. I cannot set up a second e-dobby loom in Silver Plus.
Or
I cannot change the kind of e-dobby loom in the Loom setup dialog?
What can I do?

Some of the internal settings for the looms have not been reset. This may cause a conflict, and may also force PCW4.x to close.
To reset the loom registry, you need to download a file called loom reg utility.exe

Use Edit/Copy image:
The drafts should be set up exactly as you want it to appear in the destination software. Adjust the magnification, the view, the size of the design window, until it shows only what you want to have in the word processing document.
Go to Edit/Copy image. A small beep may sound.
Open the destination software, such as Word, email message or a paint program.
Go to paste (or use Ctrl V and the image should appear.
You cannot use the Fiberworks copy and paste for outside applications.

Either decrease the left and/or right margins, decrease the epi, or select Fit to Page in the Print Setup dialogue.
The preview shows how the printout appears. Always view all pages to see that it is arranged as desired. Look at the Pages across and Pages down information boxes to see that only the desired number of pages will be printed.

The warp and weft menus provide simple repetitive 2 color schemes. To enter more complicated orders you may proceed in a couple of different ways.
a. Choose the main warp colour and fill the entire draft with it. Then choose two different colours with the left and right mouse button. Add these colors to the warp draft in the chosen placement for instance at the points of twills.
b. Select colors from the palette bar as needed. If the color order is complicated, this becomes tedious.
c. Use the keyboard to enter the color order, just type it in. There are small numbers and letters next to the palette. These are on the first two rows on the main keyboard. Use the Tab key to put a different group of 20 colors next to the numbers and letters. Since there are 80 colors, 4 Tabs will take you back to the start.