Nudge individual grid intersections so the drawn grid sits perfectly on top of the printed grid, even on a chart that was printed or scanned slightly off-square. Optional but handy on awkward pages.

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What this step is for

 

The earlier steps gave Markup R-XP the four corners and the cell count, which is enough on cleanly printed charts. But scanned charts and some older PDFs can have grids that are slightly skewed or wavy. The straight-line grid Markup R-XP draws does not quite sit on the printed lines, especially toward the middle of the page.

This step lets you fix that by hand. The wizard scatters small handles across the grid - one at every fifth or every tenth intersection - and you drag any that are out of position onto their printed counterparts. When you tap Apply, Markup R-XP stretches the rest of the grid to follow.

 

Most pages do not need this step. If your earlier corners and cell count look spot on already, tap Save & Exit and skip straight back to the Review Grids screen.

The screen at a glance

 

The Straighten Chart screen shows a chart page with grid intersection dots scattered at regular intervals. Undo / redo buttons sit at the top-left, an offset chip is pinned to the left edge, and a row of action buttons sits in the bottom-right corner.
Figure 1. The Straighten Chart screen. (1) Intersection dots are drawn at every fifth or tenth intersection of the detected grid. (2) Undo and redo buttons sit top-left. (3) The offset chip on the left edge controls heavy-grid alignment. (4) The grid-count toggle switches between x5 and x10 spacing. (5) Apply stretches the grid through your nudged dots. (6) Save & Exit commits the page and returns to the chart overview. (7) Back returns to Confirm Size.

Nudging the intersections

 

The drawn grid is locked in place until you tap Apply. Until then you can drag any intersection dot onto where its printed counterpart sits.

  1. Pinch to zoom into an area that looks misaligned. A dot drifting off its printed corner stands out clearly when you zoom in.
  2. Touch and hold a dot. The magnifier appears above your finger so you can see exactly where you are placing it.
  3. Drag the dot onto the printed intersection beneath it. Release when the crosshair is on the corner of the printed cells.
  4. Repeat anywhere else the grid is off. Skip dots that are already in the right place - you only need to fix the ones that drifted.
  5. Tap Apply when you are done. The whole grid recalculates to pass through every dot you nudged.
A finger dragging an intersection dot toward a printed grid crossing, with a circular magnifier above the finger showing the area in detail.
Figure 2. Dragging an intersection. (1) The dot being moved. (2) The magnifier shows the area under your finger so you can land the dot precisely. (3) The printed grid intersection underneath - your target.

Tip. You do not need to move every dot. Pick a handful in the worst areas, apply, then see how the rest of the grid responds. Often two or three well-placed nudges fix the whole page.

Aligning the heavy grid: X and Y offsets

 

Many cross-stitch charts print heavier lines every five or ten cells to make counting easier. The offset chip on the left edge lets you slide the heavy-line pattern across the grid so it lines up with the printed heavy lines.

The offset chip on the left edge of the screen showing a right-arrow button with 'X: 3' below it, and a down-arrow button with 'Y: 7' below it.
Figure 3. The offset chip. (1) The X-offset arrow shifts the heavy vertical lines one step to the right with each tap. (2) The current X value, shown directly below. (3) The Y-offset arrow shifts the heavy horizontal lines one step down. (4) The current Y value.
  1. Tap the X arrow. The heavy vertical lines move one cell to the right. Keep tapping until the heavy vertical lines on screen sit on top of the heavy vertical lines in the print.
  2. Tap the Y arrow. Same for the heavy horizontal lines.
  3. The values wrap. When the offset reaches the spacing, it resets to zero - you only ever need to tap each arrow a few times.

Switching between x5 and x10 spacing

 

The button labelled x5 or x10 in the bottom row toggles between two intersection-dot densities.

  • x10 (default) - dots appear at every tenth intersection. The grid is sparser and easier to read.
  • x5 - dots appear at every fifth intersection. More dots for finer control on a difficult page.

Tap the button to switch. It shows the spacing you will switch to next, not the spacing you are currently on. Use x5 if the page is heavily skewed and you need to land more anchor points; stay on x10 for everyday cleanup.

Undo and redo

 

The two icons in the top-left corner step back and forward through your changes.

Two circular buttons in the top-left of the chart panel: a curved-left arrow for undo and a curved-right arrow for redo.
Figure 4. The undo and redo controls. (1) Undo reverses the most recent change - either a nudged dot or an Apply pass. (2) Redo brings it back if you undid by accident.

Undo will not take you back past the snapshot the wizard captured when you arrived on this step, so you cannot accidentally lose the corner-setting work from earlier.

Apply versus Save and Exit

 

There are two key buttons at the bottom of the screen.

Apply

Recalculates the grid so that every line passes through the dots you have nudged. The page redraws and you can keep going - tap any newly-misaligned dots and apply again, or move on.

Save and Exit

Commits the current grid to the project and takes you back to the Review Grids screen. Any pending dot moves you have not yet applied are saved as part of the commit, so you do not need to remember to tap Apply first.

Heads up. If the row count or column count is zero (which should never happen if you came in via Confirm Size) the wizard will refuse to save with the toast “Unable to commit changes with 0 counts”. Tap Back and set proper counts.

Tips and common questions

Here are answers to the most common questions about straightening.

Q: My chart looks straight. Do I have to do anything here?

Answer: No - just tap Save & Exit.

This step is optional. It is only useful when the printed grid is genuinely off-square. A perfectly clean chart needs no nudging at all.

Q: I nudged a dot and the rest of the grid did not move. Is something broken?

Answer: No - the grid only redraws when you tap Apply.

This lets you queue up many small nudges and see the combined effect in one pass, rather than the grid jumping after every drag.

Q: I dragged a dot too far. Can I get it back?

Answer: Tap Undo in the top-left to roll back the most recent nudge.

You can undo each dot move and each Apply individually, all the way back to the snapshot taken when you arrived on this step.

Q: Why are some dots a different colour or shape?

Answer: The corner dots are drawn differently to mark the page corners.

You set those on the Set Corners step. They stay anchored to the corners you chose so the straightening only adjusts the interior of the grid.

Q: The offsets keep resetting to zero. Is the chip broken?

Answer: No - the offset wraps around once it reaches the heavy-line spacing.

If the heavy-grid spacing is 10 cells, the offset values run 0, 1, 2, ... 9 and then back to 0. Tap the arrow once or twice more and you will see the wrap.

What's next?

 

Whichever button you tap to leave - Save & Exit, or Apply followed by Save & Exit - you return to Review Grids with this page's grid now finalised.

If every page now has a clean grid you can tap Next there to move on to Set Overlap (or straight to Set Symbols for single-page charts).