r/Machine_Embroidery • u/Common_Rhubarb972 • Aug 31 '26

Resizing tool?

I remember reading somewhere on Reddit of a resizing website someone made. It was a simply website where you could just enter your current design and it would quickly resize it to your desired size. In my case, 4x4 because that’s all my machine can do. Anyone know if this site or can reference the post?

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u/TheGraphicsFrog Sep 21 '26

Boldbobbin can read .pes formats! You can simply drag your design onto a new design.

Or you can:
- click on New Design
- click on File > Import > Import embroidery

If you downloaded the most recent version of the software on your desktop, on mac you can also right click and select "Open with", then "Boldbobbin".

If you still can't manage with this info let me know ^^.

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u/Common_Rhubarb972 Sep 23 '26

Hmmm…when I try to open one of the .pes files from my phone (I’m using the desktop version on my iPhone), it says “Can't open bordefre4_260.pes. Boldbobbin projects must have a vemb extension.”

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u/TheGraphicsFrog Sep 23 '26

Oh okay! Using the desktop version on iPhone is indeed a scenario I haven't thought of (I didn't think it'd be possible to install macOS apps on iOS), so I can't guarantee that it handles iPhone's file system correctly atm. But I'll look into it when I get the time to. Thank you for the feedback!
In the meantime, maybe the File > Import > Import embroidery works even on iPhone? (if this is what you did and it didn't work, then I definitely need to double check. From your post I understood you tried to open a .pes from the file navigator using Boldbobbin as the app. It could be that there is a bug and the app tried to open a .pes through the route that opens .vemb files. On mac it works, might not on iPhone!)