I don't have PC Stitch 10 and haven't even used my old, PC Stitch 4 software in years.
However, with most patterns, what you would do is use a scanner to scan them into your computer. You want a color scanner. A flatbed scanner work best, in my opinion.
Then, all you have is some scanned picture. But, you can then take that and load it into a cross-stitch program. Even on my very old PC Stitch program, it mentions it will convert formats such as JPEG, BMP and TIF, which are picture types of files. So, if my old version will do that, I'm sure your newer one will do it.
Here is what my PC Stitch 4 manual says:
1. File/New to start a pattern from scratch
2. Set up your pattern size.
3. Set up your cloth count.
4. Select your thread type.
Now, to get your design in there:
5. Draw a edit box where you want the pattern to go within the cloth area.
6. Click on Edit/Import and you will have yet more choices to pick from, but you can now pick your file.
Bottom line: This is the basic steps, but there seem to be a lot of steps in PC Stitch 4. I hope they have fewer steps for PC Stitch 10, but you'll have to see.
If you get tired of all this, there are programs that are on-line that will allow you to load a scanned picture to convert to cross-stitch, too. Some are better than others and, depending how fine the details of the design, one of those free ones might work fine. In fact, the reason I don't use PC Stitch, anymore, is because the things I want to scan probably aren't super-detailed. Even some of the free ones will allow you to select how many different colors it will use as a maximum for the chart, as some of the old programs notoriously had you do one stitch of many different colors in complex patterns.
And, then, with any program, you do have to stitch it and see how it comes out, regardless.
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