Brother International PE-DESIGN2.0 Owner's Manual - English - Page 136

Contents Before Using Getting Started Design Center Layout & Editing s Template Open Purpose: Opens a background bitmap 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. x Click Cancel if you want to exit the function. • This application can handle only uncompressed bitmap files. • The file name extension must be "bmp". 2 Your Design Page will display the bitmap image: • The bitmap image cannot be directly embroi- dered. 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 embroi- dery pattern from a bitmap image with more precision. See also: s Save Purpose: Shortcut key: Toolbar: "Template" on page 153 Saves your Design Page on the disk as a Version 2.0 file (default). NOTE: Saved *.pes files can be opened with Version 1.0 of this software when you select "Version 1.0 PES" as the File Type. Note however that some information could be lost. Ctrl + S File Utility Programmable Stich Creator Quick Reference Alphabetic Index 126