Brother International PEDESIGN 7.0 Users Manual - English - Page 3

Table of Contents Managing Embroidery designs (Design Database 61 Step1 Checking embroidery design files ... 61 Step2 Opening an embroidery design file in Layout & Editing 63 Case1 Printing a catalog of embroidery designs 63 Case2 Searching for an embroidery design 64 Entering Monograms (Layout & Editing) ......... 66 Step1 Creating monograms 66 Step2 Changing the font and character size 67 Step3 Changing the thread color and sew type 68 Step4 Adjusting the size and position of the decorative pattern 69 Step5 Saving the embroidery design.......... 70 Step6 Transferring the design to an original card 71 Creating Appliqués 72 Step1 Creating an appliqué pattern 72 Step2 Saving the design 74 Step3 Transferring the design to an original card 74 Automatically Converting an Image to an Embroidery Pattern (Layout & Editing/ Image to Stitch Wizard 76 Importing Image Data 76 Importing image/photo data 76 Importing image data from a scanner or digital camera 76 Creating a portrait image 77 Importing image data from the Clipboard .... 78 Changing the Image Settings 79 Changing the display of the background image 79 Changing the size and position of the image 79 Automatically Converting an Image to an Embroidery Pattern (Image to Stitch Wizard 80 Automatically converting an image to an embroidery pattern (Auto Punch 81 Automatically converting a photo to an embroidery pattern (Photo Stitch 1/Photo Stitch 2 82 Automatically converting an image to a cross stitch pattern (Cross Stitch)......... 91 Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing 94 Opening/Importing Embroidery Designs ......... 94 Creating a new embroidery design 94 Opening a Layout & Editing file 94 Importing embroidery design files 95 Importing embroidery designs from an embroidery card 97 ii Importing embroidery designs from Design Center 98 Specifying the Design Page Size and Color ... 99 Saving the Image Data 100 Editing Embroidery Designs 101 Selecting patterns 101 Moving patterns 101 Scaling patterns 103 Flipping patterns horizontally or vertically.. 104 Rotating patterns 104 Grouping embroidery patterns 105 Reshaping Embroidery Patterns 106 Selecting points 106 Moving points 106 Inserting points 107 Deleting points 108 Transforming straight lines into curves or curves into straight lines 108 Smoothing out the path at a point 109 Symmetrically adjusting the control handles of a point 109 Transforming to a pointed path 110 Moving entry/exit points and the center point 110 Editing a Stitch Pattern 113 Converting objects to a stitch pattern ........ 113 Editing stitch points of stitch pattern .......... 113 Changing colors of a stitch pattern 115 Converting a stitch pattern to blocks.......... 115 Splitting off parts of a stitch pattern 116 Drawing Shapes 118 About circles and arcs 118 Drawing a circle or an oval 118 Drawing an arc 118 Drawing a fan shape 119 Drawing an arc & string 120 Selecting the circle/arc type 120 Drawing a rectangle 121 Specifying the radius of the rectangle corners 121 Drawing various shapes 121 About straight lines and curves 122 Drawing straight lines and curves 123 Selecting the attributes of line ends........... 124 Manually Creating Professional-Level Embroidery Patterns (Manual Punching) ...... 125 Adding Text 127 Entering Text 127 Selecting text attributes 128 Editing entered text 130 Selecting characters 131 Specifying text attributes 132 Easy changes to the character size and attributes 133 Specifying text arrangement 135 Transforming text 137 Specifying TrueType text attributes 137