Printing
Full moon I guess, but finding a machine that worked at the lab was a quest. And when I finally did, someone beat me at printing their stuff! Conclusion: I brought MY printer to the lab. And ended with two nice table napkins: one about neurobiology and addiction, and another with the administrative functions of the 4th floor east printer. I like it! Way more interesting than my initial cheesecake idea: printing the menu of a restaurant on it's tablecoth/napkins (though it would save trees).
Attempts at Embroidering
Problems found (and to be extinguished!)
If your file does not open it might be because you need to save it as an older version of Illustrator OR as a .png
To make life easier, it should be a vector image.
Once I had a vector image, another myriad of problems came about:
I could not open the image.
(a "creature" as drawn by a Ursula, 11y.o)
(I find the menu box confusing... Create new form existing file?) I could not select the image once it opened. All the options fro creating an image on the software itself were gone. A pop up dialog saying the program had problems saving and sharing? kept appearing. Once the image opened, I had no saving options but to save it as a Draw file. Once I somehow got it to open and was able to "edit" it. it gave me no stitch options but cross-stitch and none, which made the very simple drawing almost unreadable. Saved it nonetheless and took it to the machine. When it opened, it appeared as a group of vertical and horizontal lines, like a tight knitted web. Nothing like what I had, making me think it was looking at something else...