Jigsaw Maker Plus
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Recommended Minimum System: PC, Windows 95 or better e.g. XP, Vista, Windows 7, (Mac users click here), 16MB Ram, Pentium 166 and sound card.
Build and try 48 and 80 piece jigsaw puzzles using
photos supplied or ones of your own. Once made you can do the jigsaws within the program. An added extra is, if you are very careful with a pair of scissors, you can print out the pieces onto paper to be stuck to card or straight onto thin card if your printer allows.
Program includes an uninstall facility.
Compressed file size - 1.38 MB.
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Make 48 and 80 piece jigsaws from the sample pictures provided or one of your own. Then do the jigsaw in the program. Most picture formats are supported i.e. bmp, jpg, gif, pcx. The jigsaws are 500 pixels wide by 400 high so the program will resize your picture to that. Please note that the program saves your picture as a puzzle separately in the Jigsaw program folder and will not alter the original picture. Please also note that each time you create a new puzzle, this will overwrite the old pieces so as not to take up lots of disk space. An added option is that you can print out your puzzles so that you can make your own paper/card ones.
This program is the big brother of Jigsaw Maker as it makes much larger puzzles of 48 and 80 pieces. The smaller, Jigsaw Maker program makes puzzles of 15 and 24 pieces and is also available to download from my website.
How To Use
Main Menu Screen
The first time you run this program you will get a message advising that your first job is to create a puzzle by clicking the Make A New Jigsaw button. This message will only appear the first time the program is run as once a puzzle is made, it will be available for any future sessions of the program. The Play 48 Piece Jigsaw and Play 80 Piece Jigsaw buttons become available to click once you have made your first puzzle.
Make A New Jigsaw Screen
On this screen you will see a Load Picture button at the top. Click this and a window will appear allowing you to choose a picture from the ones shown. This is a normal Open dialogue window so you can browse through your hard disk and other drives on your computer/network. It will only show pictures that can be loaded by my program which should be most types of picture format you have. Double click the picture name or single click it and choose the Open button.
The picture you choose should then appear in the rectangle. If it is larger than 500 pixels wide by 400 high, then it will be resized accordingly (this will not affect the size of your original picture). A Build Jigsaw button should have now appeared. Click this and watch as the puzzle is made. Progress is shown by a blue bar under the picture. When it has finished you can click on the Try Jigsaw button at the bottom of the screen.
Play 48 & 80 Piece Jigsaw Screen
On this screen you will see a rectangle where the puzzle will be made and a tray of jigsaw pieces on the right. Left click, hold and drag to move a piece over the rectangle. When a piece is in the correct place in the rectangle it will drop and if you have the speakers turned on, a click noise will sound. If you let go of the left mouse button and the piece is in the wrong place it will pop back to its position in the pieces tray.
The pieces tray on the right holds all the puzzle pieces. Click on the scroll bar to move up and down the tray. Clicking in the middle of the scroll bar moves the pieces up or down 4 at a time. Clicking on the small arrows moves the pieces one at a time, either up or down. A counter at the bottom of the tray keeps a record of how many pieces are in the tray.
There are three buttons at the bottom of the screen, a Main Menu one which restarts the program, Show Picture, which reveals the finished picture in a separate window and a Close button.
If you are having difficulty doing any puzzle, a good tip is to start with the corner pieces and then all the edge pieces before doing the middle parts.
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