Essentials has a technology known as a stitch processor that lets you resize existing stitch files upward to 250% and downward to 50%.
This recalculation of the stitches allows even lettering designs that have been added with a BX font or AlphaTricks to be scaled and stitches recalculated.
When sizing using handles in the Main View, stitches are recalculated – if you hold down the Ctrl key while dragging, recalculation is disabled for that drag (which can be useful to very simply lighten the density in a design a bit).
The process of recalculation is to add more ‘lines’ of stitching in the satin and fill areas of a design. They may even be curved fill lines, or lines with carved areas such as pattern fills. The sizing engine will preserve the look of the fill while keeping the density the same as it was when the design was at its original size.
You can size, resize and resize again in Essentials, as the original design is kept behind the scenes and is always re-referenced when creating a new size.
When sizing with the handles in the Main View, the upper and lower limits of percentage are limited to help prevent overly-distorted designs. You may override this using the size boxes on the Tool Pane which let you specify a size.