Brother International PE-DESIGN Ver.4 3 2 Instructin Manual for PE-DESIGN Ver. - Page 162

Contents 3 If you are not running Design Center or if it does not contain a pem file, the first or the second mes- sage will appear. x Click OK to exit. Before Using Getting Started Design Center Layout & Editing See also: "Design Center" on page 57 s Template Open Purpose: Opens a background image that can be used as a guide to draw a new embroidery pattern. Shortcut key: No shortcut key for this function Toolbar: No button for this function Operation: 1 Click File, then Template Open. A Open template file dialog similar to this will display. x Select the drive, the folder and the file name. • If the Preview check box is checked, the contents of the selected file displays in the Preview window. x Click Open to open the file. • Double-clicking the file name will also open the file and close the dialog. 2 Your Design Page will display the image: x Click Cancel if you want to exit the function. • This application can handle only uncom- pressed files. • The file extension must be one of the fol- lowing: Windows BMP (*.bmp), Exif (*.tif, *.jpg), ZSoftPCX (*.pcx), Windows Meta File (*.wmf), Portable Network Graphics (*.png), Encapsulated PostScript (*.eps), Kodak PhotoCD (*.pcd), FlashPix (*.fpx). NOTE: For pcd and fpx files that are saved on many pages, only the first page can be opened. Tif files that have used LZW compression can not be opened. • The image cannot be directly embroidered.You can only use it as a guide to draw an embroidery pattern (using broken lines, curves or manual punching). • Design Center allows you to make an embroidery pattern from an image with more precision. See also: 152 "Template-On, Faded, Off" on page 191 File Utility Programmable Stich Creator Quik Reference Alphabetic Index