Brother PE-DESIGN V7 Manually Creating Custom Font Font Creator, Preparing a background image

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
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

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)

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”.

1Start up Font Creator.

Click , then select All Programs,

then PE-DESIGN Ver7, then Font Creator.

2Import the image to be displayed in the background.

Click File, then Template Open.

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