Folks---
I recently stepped into my local sewing machine dealer while doing laundry today, and got a wonderful demo of one of the Janome embroidery/sewing machines. It's pricey, but nice. There's only one really huge downfall:
No Linux software.
Sure, the thing uses standard CF cards (with a PCMCIA adapter for the machine), so it's no problem for me to find designs online and get them to the machine using my Linux box. I do, however, want to do more than that.
Does anyone know if there are any Linux software packages out there that work with small-scale embroidery machines? I'm not too worried about whether or not Janome is supported, just whether or not I can avoid installing and tweaking WINE (the only concession to Microsoft I've made since going linux is maintaining my hotmail account) in order to use embroidery machine software.
If such is unavailable, does anyone happen to know where I might find the specifications for the popular embroidery machine formats?