Brother International PEDESIGN 7.0 Users Manual - English - Page 302
Manually Creating Custom Font Font, Creator - pe design 7 0 0 1 portable
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Tutorial (Advanced) Manually Creating Custom Font (Font Creator) With Font Creator, custom font characters that can be used in Layout & Editing can be created and edited. Using these custom characters, original embroidery patterns can be created. This procedure will go through each step of the basic operation. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 5 Preparing a background image Opening a background image Creating a font character pattern Creating other font character patterns Creating an embroidery pattern using the created font characters Step 1 Preparing a background image Prepare a background image for creating a custom font character using the Manual Punch tools in order to create an custom character or a character for a font that is not included with the built-in fonts. Using a scanner or similar device, prepare the background image as an image file. There are many different types of files that can be imported: Windows bitmap (.bmp) Exif (.tif, .jpg) ZSoftPCX (.pcx) Windows Meta File (.wmf) Portable Network Graphics (.png) Encapsulated PostScript (.eps) Kodak PhotoCD (.pcd) FlashPix (.fpx) JPEG2000 (.j2k) 1 Start up Font Creator. Click , then select All Programs, then PE-DESIGN Ver7, then Font Creator. 2 Import the image to be displayed in the background. b Memo: To immediately begin using the Manual Punch tools without using a background image, skip Step 1 and Step 2. Step 2 Opening a background image In order to create the custom font, we will open an image in the background. For this example, we will use the provided background image to create a pattern for the letter "T". Click File, then Template Open. 296