Owner's Manual
Table Of Contents
- PE-DESIGN8 Instruction Manual
- Turn Any Design Into Original Embroidery With PE-DESIGN
- What You Can Do With PE-DESIGN
- Sew Types
- Basic Operation Map
- New Features of Version 8
- Table of Contents
- How To Use Manuals
- Support/Service
- Tutorial
- Arranging Embroidery Designs (Layout & Editing)
- Layout & Editing Window
- Opening/Importing Embroidery Designs
- Checking Embroidery Patterns
- Editing Embroidery Designs
- Reshaping Embroidery Patterns
- Editing a Stitch Pattern
- Specifying the Design Page Size and Color
- Changing Application Settings
- Drawing Shapes
- Manually Creating Professional-Level Embroidery Patterns (Manual Punching)
- Adding Text
- Entering Monograms
- Applying Sewing Attributes to Lines and Regions
- Editing Regions
- Checking and Editing the Sewing Order/ Lock
- Importing Image Data
- Changing the Image Settings
- Automatically Converting an Image to an Embroidery Pattern (Image to Stitch Wizard)
- Saving and Printing
- Basic Design Center Operations
- Manually Creating Embroidery Patterns From Images (Design Center)
- About the Instruction Manual (PDF Format)
- Tutorial (Advanced)
- Managing Embroidery Design Files (Design Database)
- Design Database Window
- Starting Up Design Database
- Checking Embroidery Designs
- Opening Embroidery Designs
- Organizing Embroidery Designs
- Searching for an Embroidery Design
- Converting Embroidery Design Files to Different Formats
- Writing Embroidery Design Files to an Original Card
- Outputting a Catalog of Embroidery Designs
- Basic Programmable Stitch Creator Operations
- Creating Custom Stitch Patterns (Programmable Stitch Creator)
- Opening a Pattern File
- Creating a New Pattern
- Viewing the Pattern While Creating It
- Creating a Pattern in Fill/Stamp Mode
- Editing a Pattern in Fill/Stamp Mode
- Creating Embossing/Engraving Effects in Fill/Stamp Mode
- Creating a Pattern in Motif Mode
- Editing a Pattern in Motif Mode
- Saving Patterns
- Changing the Settings
- Basic Font Creator Operations
- Creating Custom Fonts (Font Creator)
- Tips and Techniques
- Menus/Tools
- Troubleshooting
- Index
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Creating Custom Fonts (Font Creator)
Checking the Created Font Patterns
The sewing order and preview of the font character patterns and the list of created characters can be checked.
Checking and editing the
sewing order
The sewing order for the font character pattern can
be viewed and modified.
Toolbar button:
1. Click , or click Sew, then Sewing Order.
→ A Sewing Order dialog box similar to the
one shown below appears.
: Click to enlarge each pattern to fill its
frame.
■ Selecting pattern
1. Select a pattern in the Sewing Order dialog
box.
→ The selected pattern has a pink line
around it, and marching lines appear
around the corresponding pattern in the
Design Page.
■ Editing the sewing order
The sewing order can be changed by selecting the
frame containing the pattern that you want to move,
then dragging the frame to the new location. A
vertical red line appears, indicating the position
where the frame is being moved.
An alternative method for moving the frames is by
clicking the buttons at the bottom of the dialog box.
: Click to move the selected pattern to the
beginning of the sewing order.
: Click to move the selected pattern ahead
one position in the sewing order.
: Click to move the selected pattern back
one position in the sewing order.
: Click to move the selected pattern to the
end of the sewing order.
To change the sewing order, click OK.
Previewing the embroidery
pattern
A preview of the Font pattern can be viewed in the
Preview window.
Toolbar button:
1. Click , or click Display, then Preview
Window.
→ The Preview window appears.