Brother PE-DESIGN V7 instruction manual For more details, refer to Drawing Shapes on

Tips and Techniques

Creating Outlined Characters (Using Text Converted to Outline Object)

Outlined characters within a shape can be created by applying the Convert to Outline Object command to a character of a TrueType font.

1.Use a Shape tool to draw a shape.

c For more details, refer to “Drawing Shapes” on page 118.

2.Select a character in a TrueType font.

3.Right-click the character, and then select Convert to Outline Object from the menu that appeared.

c For more details, refer to “Converting text to outline pattern” on page 138.

4.Position the character so that it is framed by the shape.

5.After selecting the outlined character pattern, hold down the Ctrl key and select a Shape tool to select Set Hole Sewing.

c For more details, refer to “Preventing overlapping stitching (hole sewing)” on page 166.

6.Select the outlined pattern inside the character, and then click the Region sew

button .

(Since the background color in this example is black, the color selected with the Region

color button is black.)

→The outlined character is completed.

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