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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 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)
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”.
Start up Font Creator.
Click , then select All Programs,
then PE-DESIGN Ver7, then Font Creator.
Import the image to be displayed in the
background.
Click File, then Template Open.
Step 1 Preparing a background image
Step 2 Opening a background image
Step 3 Creating a font character pattern
Step 4 Creating other font character patterns
Step 5 Creating an embroidery pattern using the created font characters
b Memo:
To immediately begin using the Manual Punch
tools without using a background image, skip
Step 1
and
Step 2
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