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I bought the first version with fairies and angels back in November so myself and the kids could play and use it together to design Christmas cards. However it took till late January for us to get the update which made the software work anything like as easily as it was publicised/ broadcast on Ideal World. I thought the program was potentially a great piece of software and that after some tweaking by Arts and Crafts Direct and Stephanie it might even be great. Before I even thought about buying the new one, I would like to know if they have addressed the problems in the original version. The main bugbear being the software saving your creations and projects as .dat files. This seriously crippled the programs usefulness. Why it can't save them as jpegs or pdf or simply ANY format other than .dat is a mystery to me. To the ladies who did samples - is there now anyway to save projects as jpegs or export to pdf - so you can use them in other software packages, send them to others as gifts in an email or even print them out elsewhere than from within My Craft Studio ? Also if you already have another version of My Craft Studio like the fairies and angels version - which many of us have only just NOW managed to get an update for- have you to install yet ANOTHER version over the top. What what will happen to the projects you made and saved with the original ? If you have to install each of these 'versions' of the application as well as the artwork/image files it's going to eat up your system requirements on your pc pretty quick ? I'd email IW and ask them these questions but I can't see them letting such an email through. I still feel that ,yes you should pay for cds with new content/artwork/imagery - but I think it's an insult to the loyal folk who bought the original version of My Craft Studio when IT was an Ideal World POTD ,based on it's much vaunted ease of use, to have to pay AGAIN to get a working version of the software that now has a proper WORKING ruler and layout grid - basic features which were advertised on Ideal World as being included in the FIRST version - features that simply never WORKED properly in the first version. It's my belief that were Arts and Crafts Direct to send out an update free to purchasers of original versions of the software and that update included a working edition of the ruler and layouts ,they would build customer confidence and they would have an even bigger sales audience for cds containing just new artwork. I absolutely appreciate software applications get upgraded and you have to pay for a new version when there is major overhaul -I've no bones about purchasing new editions of photoshop elements say every two years - but I think it's bad form to make folks pay for a update only weeks after they purchased an edition that didn't match the advertised criteria !! Sorry but this really gets to me. Especially since I'm in a position where I would LOVE to recommend this software to a lot of people but feel right now I can't.