Brother PE-DESIGN V7 Saving Font Character Patterns, Overwriting, Saving with a new name

Creating Custom Fonts (Font Creator)

Saving Font Character Patterns

Overwriting

The font character pattern being edited is overwritten when saving any changes that have been made.

Toolbar button:

1.Click , or click File, then Save.

→If the pattern has already been saved at least once, the file is saved immediately.

→If no file name has been specified or if the file cannot be found, the Save As dialog box appears.

a Note:

If any part of the character pattern extends off the Design Page, a message appears. Edit the character pattern so that no part extends off the Design Page, and then save it again.

c “Saving with a new name” on this page

Saving with a new name

The current file can be saved with a different file name in order to keep the original unchanged or to keep various versions of the same font character pattern.

The font character patterns are saved as .pef files.

1.Click File, then Save As.

→A Save As dialog box similar to the one shown below appears.

2.Select the drive and the folder, and then type in the file name.

a Note:

•Save the font created in the location below. The font will not be usable in the Layout & Editing if it’s stored in a different folder.

(Drive where PE-DESIGN was installed) \Program Files\Brother\PE-DESIGN Ver7\My font

•If Layout & Editing has already started up when a new character is saved in Font Creator, that character will not appear in the Font selector list in Layout & Editing. In this case, exit Layout & Editing, and then start it up again.

b Memo:

The correct extension is automatically selected.

3.Click Save to save the font character patterns.

b Memo:

•To quit the operation, click Cancel.

•If a file already exists with the name specified in the Save As dialog box, the following message appears.

•To overwrite the file, click Yes.

•If you do not want to overwrite the existing file, click No. You can then enter a different file name.

c “Overwriting” on this page

a Note:

If any part of the character pattern extends off the Design Page, a message appears. Edit the character pattern so that no part extends off the Design Page, and then save it again.

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