Brother PE-DESIGN V7 instruction manual Design Page guidelines

Creating Custom Fonts (Font Creator)

→The image fills the work area.

b Memo:

•Double-clicking the file name also opens the file and closes the dialog box.

•To quit the operation, click Cancel.

a Note:

•With .pcd and .fpx files containing many pages, only the first page can be opened. Tiff files with LZW compression cannot be opened.

•Only one image can be added to the work area. If you try to display a different image, it will replace the previous one.

b Memo:

•The template image that remains in the work area can be displayed or hidden, or a faded copy of the image can be displayed. For details, refer to “Changing the display of the background image” on page 254.

•The Base Line, Capital Line and Set Lines, which appear as red lines in the sample bitmap, have been added as guidelines so the background image can be positioned more easily.

The Design Page guidelines

The standard guidelines for creating fonts are shown in the Design Pages. The contents of each of the guidelines are as shown below.

(E) Ascender Line

(B) Capital Line

(C) Mean Line

(A) Base Line

(D) Descender Line

(F) Set Line (G) Set Line

(A)Base Line

This line is the reference for positioning the font character.

Normally, from this line to the Capital Line will be the font height. This line cannot be moved.

(B)Capital Line

The font’s standard height will be from the Base Line to this line. This line cannot be moved.

(C)Mean Line

When in lower case, the standard height of the font will be from the Base Line to this line. It can be moved by dragging the triangle icon on the right edge.

(D)Descender Line

This line is the standard for characters with parts that hang down (descenders) such as “g” and “y”. It can be moved by dragging the triangle icon on the right edge.

(E)Ascender Line

This line is the standard for characters with parts that extended above (ascenders) such as the accent mark. It can be moved by dragging the triangle icon on the right edge.

(F/G) Set Line

This line will be the font width. The font width can be adjusted by dragging the triangle icon on the bottom edge.

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