Brother PE-DESIGN V7 instruction manual Editing the Points of a Font Character Pattern

Creating Custom Fonts (Font Creator)

Editing the Points of a Font Character Pattern

The points that you move or insert are positioned at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical lines of the grid. Regardless of where you drag a point to or insert a point on the line, it will automatically be positioned at the nearest intersection.

Moving points

1.Click on the Tool Box.

→The shape of the pointer changes to .

2.Click the pattern that you want to edit.

→The points in the pattern appear as small empty squares.

b Memo:

You can only select one pattern at a time.

3.Click the point that you want to move.

→The selected point appears as a small black square.

b Memo:

• To select additional points, hold down the

Ctrl key and click each point, or drag the pointer over the points that you want to select.

• To select the previous (or next) point in the

line, hold down the Ctrl key and press the → (or ←) key.

a Note:

If you click the line of the pattern instead of a point, a new point is inserted.

4.Drag the point to the new location.

→All of the selected points move in the same direction.

b Memo:

• To move the point horizontally or vertically, hold down the Shift key while dragging it.

•Pressing the arrow keys moves the selected point one grid mark in the direction of the arrow on the key. If the grid is not displayed, the point moves a distance smaller than the smallest grid interval in the direction of the arrow on the key.

•Holding down the arrow key for the desired direction continues moving the outline in that direction.

Inserting points

1.Click on the Tool Box.

→The shape of the pointer changes to .

2.Click the pattern that you want to edit.

→The points in the pattern appear as small empty squares.

b Memo:

You can only select one pattern at a time.

3.Click the line to add a new point.

→A new point appears selected (as a small black square).

b Memo:

If a point is inserted in a straight block-type punching pattern, curved block-type punching pattern or semi-automatically created block- type punching pattern, a point is also automatically inserted in the connecting line along the sewing direction. In addition, in this case, a point cannot be inserted in the line parallel to the sewing direction.

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