Menus/Tools

List of Menus

b Memo:

Many menu commands are available as buttons on the Toolbar or in the menu that appears when the right mouse button is clicked.

File menu

The File menu contains commands for handling file input/output, such as opening and saving.

Menu

Toolbar

Purpose

Shortcut key Reference

 

 

 

 

New Line Image

 

 

Creates a new Design Page and switches to the Line

Ctrl + N

p. 197

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Image Stage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Figure Data

 

 

Creates a new Design Page and switches to the

 

 

 

p. 202

 

 

Figure Handle Stage.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wizard

 

 

Gives a step-by-step guide for creating pattern,

F3

p. 194

 

 

according the type of data you want to create.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opens a previously saved file (.pem, .pel) or image file

Ctrl + O

 

 

 

 

(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).

 

 

 

 

Open

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

a Note:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For .pcd and .fpx files containing many

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

pages, only the first page can be displayed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tiff files that have used LZW compression

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

cannot be opened.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select TWAIN device

 

 

Selects which TWAIN device installed in the computer

 

 

 

p. 195

 

 

to use.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Input from TWAIN

 

 

Operates a TWAIN standardized scanner or other

 

 

 

 

device

 

 

device to import an image.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Input from Clipboard

 

 

Opens a new Design Page in the Original Image

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stage, and imports the image data on the Clipboard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Output to Clipboard

 

 

Copies the Original Image Stage image data to the

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clipboard.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Import Figure

 

 

Adds a .pem file to your Design Page (available only

F8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

in the Figure Handle stage).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Save

 

 

Saves your Design Page on the disk as latest version

Ctrl + S

p. 234

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

file (default).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saves the current pattern under a new file name.

 

 

 

p. 234

 

 

 

Savable files are: in the Original Image Stage, Bitmap

 

 

 

 

Save As

 

 

files (.bmp); in the Line Image Stage, .pel files; and in

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the Figure Handle Stage and the Sew Setting Stage,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.pem files.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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